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In 1948 Brian Lloyd-Jacob and two friends built them selves "A Go Kart" "The First Kart", of coarse the term Go Kart had not been invented at that time but the "Go Kart" clearly had and it was British.

Published in American science magazine "Popular Science" in March 1949 it's easy to see how this Idea may have been borrowed a decade later. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lSQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=Brian+Lloyd-Jacob&source=bl&ots=-rYsho_0OS&sig=2uXzAJl9Q8XAZ_zgKhHn0faILlY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=
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Shame on the club who have sat on this information for some time now, a Limited Company supported by your money, you members need to ask "Who's Buttocks" do the famous three have their noses wedge up this time?

I will be up-dating this page and Blog over the next few days.

The Brian Lloyd-Jacob's kart
the real kart number 1

Brian Lloyd-Jacob kick starting the Villiers engine into life.

The vehicle does look very kart like and was powered with a 250cc Villiers that originally powered a generator on a boat.  It is coupled through a three speed gearbox to a live rear axle that as one driven wheel and one free rotating wheel.  The wheels were solid and from a heavy duty trolley.  The brake was a lever and pulley belt from a lathe operating on the rear axle!  Everything was bolted together, there was no welding.

"Interesting, not only was the FIRST KART made in 1948 it was also a GEARBOX KART"