> In the early days they had to be persuaded to get on at all. A one-legged man, ‘Bumper’ Harris, was hired to ride for a whole day on the first installation –

> In the early days they had to be persuaded to get on at all. A one-legged man, ‘Bumper’ Harris, was hired to ride for a whole day on the first installation – it was at Earls Court – to show how easy it was. Some people were sceptical (how had he lost his leg?) but others broke their journey there just to ride up and down. Reminds me of a Blendtec salesman I saw at Costco who had one of his arms amputated at the elbow. The initial reaction was revulsion, especially since he made frequent jokes about losing his arm in a blender accident as he was using his arm stub to push things into the blender. But it was a very effective demo in showing how the Blendtec was so easy to use that it practically ran itself.