UPDATE - MANUAL AND ELECTRIC MODELS NOW AVAILABLE FOR DELIVERY IN NOVEMBER 2021
Choose the Bowls Royce option that suits your budget and needs below:
- Bowls Royce EM £549 (Entry-level Manual, cannot be upgraded to electric later)
- Bowls Royce UM £890 (Upgradable Manual, electric power pack can be purchased later)
- Bowls Royce Electric £1990 (fully powered for complete independence)
Bowls Royce Bowls Wheelchair
- Description
- Specifications
- Customer Reviews (3)
Delivery: Due to COVID supply contraints orders placed on or after 9 September 2021 will be delivered in November 2021
What stops you from playing bowls? Maybe you have asthma or COPD. Perhaps acute tendonitis. You might be convalescing from and injury or operation.
In all these scenarios it's not the bowling, it's the walking. Eighteen or twenty one ends just aren't possible.
Or maybe you are a wheelchair user already and didn't know that there is a wheelchair approved for use on both indoor and outdoor greens.
The Bowls Royce® wheelchair may be the bowling aid that re-enables the game you thought you had to give up for ever. Or perhaps it will open new possibilities of sport, social conviviality and even competition that you never thought possible.
The Bowls Royce is offered in three models - Manual, Upgradable Manual and Electric.
The manual model - 'Bowls Royce-EM' is self-propelled using traditional wheelchair power - your own arms or a colleague's. Someone on your rink or a fifth member of your team - pushes you to each delivery position. It's no different to the batsman who has a runner between the wickets.
NB This model is the least costly in the range and cannot be upgraded in the future to an electric Bowls Royce.
The Upgradable Manual model - 'Bowls Royce-UM' is also self-propelled using traditional wheelchair power - your own arms or a colleague's. This model is prepared to allow retro-fitting of the full upgrade to the battery-powered Bowls Royce model.
The battery-powered model - 'Bowls Royce-BP' gives the bowler complete independence of movement and was designed by Bush Hill Bowls in conjunction with disability sports engineering charity ReMap.
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Dimensions
| Depth | 107cm / 42" |
| Width | 65cm / 25" |
| Height | 89cm /35" |
| Seat height | 52cm / 20" |
| Seat depth | 40cm / 16" |
| Width between arms | 45cm / 18" |
| Seat to footrest | 40-50cm / 16" - 20" |
| Maximum recommended user weight | 110Kgs / 242 lbs |
| Battery (-E model only) | 24v Lithium ion |
| Motors | 2 x 250W 24v |
| Bowling Green Tyres | 80mm heat-bonded High Density Polyethylene |
3 Reviews for Bowls Royce Bowls Wheelchair
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Green Motoring - Friday, June 4, 2021Hello, this is just a thank you message to Jerry for coming out to my Club Townsend in St Albans this morning to show me your excellent Bowls Royce Bowls Wheelchair. I agree that it would be far preferable to have the motorised version and to that end I will see if I can obtain a grant to buy one for the Club and will contact you regarding this. You mentioned that you will be demonstrating the Wheelchair at Didcot Bowls Club. If I can I may try and pop along. Once again thank you so much for taking the time to come out and I look forward to contacting you soon. Kind regards, Mike Cowell
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A positive impact for disability bowlers - Friday, July 5, 2019This innovation has the ability to make a positive impact for disability bowls as it gives the disabled bowler the ability to be self-sufficient rather than to rely on others to project them on the green. One of our wheelchair bowlers, Mick Brunt, is now so proficient that he is regularly playing in club matches.
Gary Fagg, MBE New Romney Bowls Club, Kent. -
I'm back in the game! - Friday, July 5, 2019Not being able to walk between ends had killed the game of bowls for me. My Bowls Royce powered wheelchair makes me independent and mobile between ends - I\'m back in the game!
Bill Bain, St Andrews Bowls Club, Fife, Scotland
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Bowls Royce Brochure
This Bowls wheelchair may be the bowling aid that re-enables the game you thought you had to give up for ever. Or perhaps it will open new possibilities of sport, social conviviality and even competition that you never thought possible
Bowls Royce wheelchairs can be seen in action at a club near you in Bedfordshire, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Suffolk and West Sussex with more clubs and counties added every month. For a full list of locations where the Bowls Royce can be seen, click HERE
And it’s not just Bowls: see how the Bowls Royce can make croquet accessible!
Hi, I belong to a bowls club and we are thinking of purchasing a wheelchair to try and help the disabled come and enjoy bowls.
Could you send me a brochure please. Also do you get any second hand chairs for sale?
Regards
Anne
Brochure on its way to you. We occasionally get second-hand chairs, they come and go quickly. Let us know if you are interested in manual or electric and we will let you know if/when we get one in.
Thanks,
Jerry
Please can you send me a brochure for the electric bowls wheel chair, I am an 85 year old who has not been able to bowl for th last five years owing to spinal injury from osteoarthritis, and really miss going bowls matches, many thanks. Jill
Hi Jill,
Brochure on its way, thanks,
Jerry
23/02/2021
Thanks, Ken. Information is on its way to you.
I’m a very keen bowler but at the moment cannot walk more than a few metres without severe pain. The medical experts can’t find out what my problem is. I’d like to carry on bowling, so I’d like to purchase a wheelchair. Could you please send me a brochure and price list.
Thank you.
Hi I spoke to you recently about the Bowls Royce Powered Wheelchair and have now received grants from Disability Bowls England and the Disabled Sports Foundation.
I notice the cost has risen by £50 since I applied for the grants and am able to afford the carriage, but struggling to find the extra £50 as I only get disability benefit.
Is there any chance of a concession?
I am ready to order now.
Thank you.
Hi Virginia, yes, we will honour the price quoted when you first enquired.
Thanks,
Jerry
Please send me details of wheelchairs that can be used on indoor bowls greens
Thanks Peter – brochure now sent by email,
Jerry
Hi Marlene,
We’ll happily bring a demo unit to your club for a few hours. Please supply your postcode and contact details in an email to sales@bushhillbowls.co.uk and we’ll get in touch to arrange it.
Jerry
Where in Norfolk can I see a Bowls Royce wheelchair (powered) and try it out? It is an expensive item to buy without testing its suitability for me.
Marlene Rogers
Thanks Bunty, made contact this morning as you know!
The Atherley Bowling Club, Hill Lane, Southampton, is interested in buying an electrical bowling wheelchair, I would like to speak to someone about this please on Monday the 2nd December between 9 a m and 11 am if possible.
Bunty
Wares
President
Hi I did leave a message yesterday (Sunday)
this is a follow .
I am really interested in the Bowls Royce for my son Jason.
He would need a right sided joystick and be able to bowl right handed.
I have seen the video and it looks really great.
Jason uses a power chair so he is used to moving that well
This would be a great gift for him so tell me more
Ray Page
The Bowls Royce powered bowls wheelchair is now available for purchase.
Hi You said that remap is looking at a way to convert the chair to a power driven model, has this been successful ? and if so what would be the cost to buy one.
Regards Billymac
The engineering for the power-driven model is complete (November 2018), and we are now finalising the electronics for the joystick control. We estimate it will be available for purchase by February 2019. We have not yet determined pricing as this depends on component costs, which in turn depend on volumes. However we are aiming for a sub-£2000 price.
Additional info: the height of the wheels can be adjusted.
Yes, the arms lift off. The wheels and footrests are also easily detachable so that the chair can be placed in a car boot.
Thanks,
Jerry
Would like full details of the bowls wheelchair.
Do the arms lift off to allow transfer from a standard wheelchair?