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Three wheels on my wagon

3 years ago

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Writer:

Henry Catchpole | Journalist

Date:

10 February 2022

Things that restore your faith in humanity: the returned wallet; a nice comment on YouTube; Hugh Laurie; a lift door held open; the success of the Morgan 3 Wheeler.

When you first clap eyes on an M3W in anything approaching a modern context, it makes no sense. There is the feeling that it might have been lashed together from whatever was lying around in a barn, perhaps to provide a desperate means of escape.

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