The bitmap drawings below show a side view and a top view of a later model power wheelchair:

Later Power Wheelchair Side View

Later Power Wheelchair Top View

The Role Of The Later Power Wheelchair

As will be discussed on the next page, the later model power wheelchairs have the smallest turning radius of all of the wheelchair types. For this reason, these wheelchairs require less manuevering room and can fit in many places that some of the other wheelchair types cannot. These are therefore the desirable type of wheelchair for anyone who can use them in their standard as-manufactured configuration and who prefers the tight manueverability and comparatively small size of these wheelchairs.

Later Power Wheelchair Characteristics

While earlier power wheelchairs resembled their manual wheelchair counterparts in appearance, later power wheelchairs have differed considerably from manual wheelchairs in their appearance and in some aspects of their operation even though these types of wheelchairs can in essence "turn on a dime" as their manual counterparts do. In fact, later power wheelchairs in some cases actually use some of the same components as some scooter wheelchair models.

Later power wheelchairs more than anything give the appearance of a seat on wheels -- the seats on most of these somewhat resemble car seats more than anything else. The overall dimensions of many modern power wheelchairs are in fact less than those of many manual wheelchairs, allowing this type of wheelchair to occupy a smaller space than other wheelchair types. As we'll be discussing shortly, this also proves true with respect to the manuevering characteristics of these wheelchairs.

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