Incident on the Ridgeway

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Friends of Ridgeway notes
One day Matthias challenged and technically assaulted a nursemaid in the belief that her pram was a carriage. For this, at the instigation of Bristol Corporation a body closely entangled with the Merchant Venturers, he was prosecuted. The prosecution, or a series of prosecutions, seems to have failed but in the process it was decided that a perambulator, an innovation the law had not hitherto considered, is the usual accompaniment of a large class of foot passengers, being so small and light, as neither to be a nuisance to other passengers nor injurious to the soil.

The inference must be that a pram is not a carriage and provides no evidence of vehicular use.. Bristol magistrates

Now I know my pram is not a vehicle. A top bracket hand cranked recumbent trike.