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up to over 20 stone and whenever her visits were announced
household furniture had to be changed around. She loved the
fireside and dropped into a chair with such gratitude that the
poor appliance of choice suffered mortal damage.

The Lambretta LD 150 of 1955. Madge had one of the very
first with electric start. “Tough as old boots”.

Back with the scooter, her selling agent must have been
gifted to offer her the only machine capable of standing her
physical dimensions.
Added to this, the model came with an electric self starter
and simply enormous windshield.
Madge was a nurse and decided to leave her London home
following the unfortunate demise of her husband and then a
few years later the death of her daughter. She was engaged in a
post at a children’s home quite close to Spalding and about 16
miles from where we were all living at Boston in the late
1950’s.

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