Both

Both was a three-wheeled electric automobile designed by inventor Edward Thomas Both and built by JA Lawton and Sons Ltd. in Adelaide, South Australia in the World War 2 era (1939-1945) when petrol rationing was in force.

Edward Both was named "the Edison of Australia" as he invented many things - including, in 1938, during the polio epidemic, the Both Respirator (a wooden version of an iron lung); portable electro-cardiograph; electric van; electric scooter; ultra-centrifuge; electro-encephalograph; colour grading of fruit; totalisator (for betting); Visitel (early version of a fax machine); Humox cots (early humidicrib); bandage roller; electro-micrometer; cloth cutter (capable of cutting 300 pieces of cloth at once); electronic score-boards (1952 Davis Cup;  1956 summer Olympics in Melbourne, Victoria)

Also part of the Ivan Hoffmann Collection but not appearing here are copies of - Both's automobile related patent 112609 - 714/1940; articles on Both and his inventions; photos; references.

1941 The Advertiser

Both Scooter_4 January 1941 The News

1942 Electrical & Engineering Review

Both delivery vans at 1945 Prospect Show

Both delivery van with an Oke body

7 January 1950

24 November 1987 The Advertiser

Below is an advertisement for a similar, but English and later made Wrigley vehicle.

Wrigley 1 February 1952 Rydges