The Amphibious Tricycle, ca. 1886

This strange-looking machine was built by a Worcester man, Mr. Harry Savage, about 1896. Mr. Savage worked at a firm of Agricultural Implement Makers, J. L. Larkworthy & Co., of Sansome Place, Worcester.

The water cycle “sailed” down the River Severn, ca. 1896.

No doubt this employment gave him the skills and the opportunity to build this machine. An elderly lady resident in Worcester recently recalled that when she was a very young girl she remembered watching its inventor and builder “sailing” it down the River Severn, “... as he came riding down the middle of the river he appeared to be high up between two very big wheels and a lot of splash. When the machine came off the river I was given a ride on it whilst water was still streaming off the big wheels.”