Mobility Information Service - Mobility information centres, questions and answers about driving, adaptions and background information. Shop for publications, simple aids and stickers.
Motability Web Site - Official Motability website. Operates a scheme to provide vehicles, wheelchairs and powered scooters to disabled people in the UK.
Disabled Drivers' Motor Club - Campaigns, services, monthly magazine, events and details of discounts and information services.
Wheelchair Travel - Rental vans with wheelchair lifts and hand controls plus accessible cars. London based but offers long distance taxi service plus sight-seeing, meet and greet, airport transfers and day tours.
Disabled Driver's Association - Informative and supportive organisation for disabled drivers in the UK. The company runs roadshows and campaigns for disabled people too.
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Motoring and Motability The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
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-- Anon. Motoring and Motability
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Motoring and Motability
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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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-- E. W. Howe Motoring and Motability
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
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