00:00Hi, my name's Tom, I'm the Chief Exec of SuperSmith. I used to live in the States together
00:21with Emily, the other founder, and I took some time out of work between finishing the
00:26States and coming back to the UK. To do that, I hired a workshop and had always had in the
00:33back of my mind that there was a problem to solve with existing mobility scooters. And
00:38I tend to do everything out of wood, and so I built the first prototype out of wood, which
00:43proved the point that we had something of real interest and potential value. But I phoned
00:48Fred up halfway through and kind of called in his expert help, and on returning to the
00:53UK, we've been working on it ever since.
00:55Yeah, my name is Morwenna Davenport. My very clever brother is the engineer who had the
01:02first idea. His name's Tom Morgan, he's the founder of SuperSmith, and that would be my
01:09involvement. There's many, you know, many thoughts. The main one would be it's self-levelling,
01:16which is revolutionary with mobility scooters. I've used three-wheelers, four-wheel wheelchairs,
01:24and everything will tip. Once you hit a camber, a slope, go off a curb, if you've got three
01:30wheels on the ground, one comes off the ground, it will tip, unless you're able to put a foot
01:35down and steady yourself. So that would be one of the key reasons. It's a better height,
01:41you can now chat to people as you go along. I spend most of my day looking up at people
01:47like this, and when you're out socialising or just scootering along, it's really inconvenient,
01:52and people tend to talk over your head. This is lightweight, it's collapsible, you can
01:58put it into a car. It looks great. I mean, you know, having a bit of kit that looks good
02:04is crucial for someone that just wants to mix in with society and just, you know, get
02:10on with their day.
02:11I'm Lindsay Mitchell. So I'm a community person that comes in and helps test the scooter,
02:21really, to see what it's like, because I've got experience of being on my own scooter,
02:24and I had another one previous to this. So I saw there was an ad put somewhere looking
02:29for people to volunteer and help out, and I thought, well, that looks interesting and
02:33exciting and being part of something quite different and innovative, really. Yeah, brilliant.
02:39Yeah, it's really exciting. And also the fact that it's so different to anything else
02:43I've tried before, because being on a four-wheeled scooter can be very difficult on certain surfaces,
02:51and I'm always having to put my leg down to try and make myself feel safe. And it took
02:57me a while to trust the scooter, I suppose, because I'm always used to something that
03:02could fall over. But this new scooter, when you hear and you feel the self-levelling kicking,
03:08it's amazing how safe you feel on it. So yeah, and it folds up, which is the same as
03:14my scooter, but I've had this a couple of years now, but it is still quite new to me.
03:20So if I had that opportunity back then, I probably would have bought one of those. So
03:25next time, when this one breaks, then I might be looking at this scooter to buy.
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