Midwife in a motorcycle

In the April issue of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club (VMCC), reader Geoff Brazendale, author of a book on the history of the sidecar, tells the story of Nurse Robinson, in the Wetheral and District Nursing association in 1921. She visited patients east of Carlisle from her Wetheral base. She had a salary of 140 Pounds per year with a five Pound uniform allowance. These types of Nursing Associations raised money through local subscribers and patrons. They existed up to 1946, when the National Health Service was created. Apparently Nurse Robinson resigned in 1922 and no other nurse wanted to ride, and the trail of the bike after that has been lost.