Choose the Bowls Royce option that suits your budget and needs below:
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 two models - Manual and Electric (battery powered). Both were designed by Bush Hill Bowls in conjunction with disability sports engineering charity ReMap.
The manual model - requires muscle-power. Outdoors on grass someone on your rink or a fifth member of your team will propel you to each delivery position. It's no different to the batsman who has a runner between the wickets. Indoors every-day wheelchair users with developed upper-body strength may find self-propulsion is possible but again, to avoid tiring after several ends we recommend using colleague-power to transit between ends.
The battery-powered model - gives the bowler complete freedom of movement indoors and outdoors. This independence is highly valued by many wheelchair bowlers because they can roll-up and practice without always having to find a buddy with available time to do the pushing.
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Dimensions
| Depth | 107cm / 42" in use; 80cm / 31.5" with handles folded down |
| Width | 65cm / 25" in use; 43cm / 17" folded (wheels on); 34cm /13.5" folded (wheels off) |
| 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 (Electric model only) | 24v Lithium ion |
| Motors | 2 x 250W 24v |
| Bowling Green Tyres | 80mm heat-bonded High Density PolyEthylene |
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I bought a Bowls Royce chair 2 years ago and lovin it. I need to adjust the brake pads, but find the 2 grub screws are super tight and have bent the Allen key trying. Is there a secret in adjustment?
The workshop here uses T-Handle hex keys to get good leverage. This is the particular set. To get additional leverage they use a steel tube on the handle!
Thnx Jerry. The brake pads are just a very tight connection!
I've had an incident where I've broken the left foot rest. (Just the plate) Am I able to order a new one? Thnx
Yes. Please email sales@bushhillbowls.co.uk with your address details in full
Thank you.
Do you have a second hand electric wheelchair for bowling?
Dear Phyllis,
Thank you for your enquiry.
Unfortunately we do not have any second-hand electric bowls wheelchairs in stock.
However you might apply for a 50% grant for a new one from the British Wheelchair Bowling Association (BWBA)
Kind regards,
Jerry
Height of 35” is a problem.
Can this be reduced by removing the backrest or wheels
Yes, with the attendant handles folded down height reduces to 30.5 inches. Remove the quick-release rear wheels and height reduces to 28 inches.
Hi there. I'm a keen bowler in the Blackburn and Darwen leagues and have COPD with severe breathing difficulties. I can stand up ok to bowl, but it's the walking between ends that I struggle with, it's nigh on impossible and very unpleasant. I see mention of a scooter in these mesages. Is there a motorised scooter available (i.e. like a tray for feet and a handle) as this would be much less bulky than a wheelchair and more suitable for my needs?
Yes - see https://bushhillbowls.co.uk/store-3/bowls-scoot/
My name is Jack Hunt and I am President of the Ffrith Indoor Bowls Centre in North Wales. We coach many Stroke Victims,
I would like to know if the Electric Scoot is safe in your opinion. (I know it has been passed by the various bodies in bowling) Do you have any in stock.? Also do you have any used Bradshaw Buggies.( I know they are not made any more)
Thank you.
Safety of the device would have to be assessed on a case-by-case basis by a qualified person, probably a physiotherapist.
Please can you provide a brochure or full details of the lawn bowls wheelchair?
Thanks
Alan Blake
Minster Bowls Club
Hi Alan: All the details are here on the web page you see above. You may have queries that are not answered here, in which case please phone us on 020 8362 1780 and we'll be happy to help.
Thanks, Jerry
Hi, I have been using a Parahandy Bowls Wheelchair but am now struggling to wheel myself up and down the green and don't really want to ask for help as I like being independent. My day chair is a Powerchair and am thinking that a Powered Bowls Wheelchair is the best thing for me now. Just wondering how long between placing order to receiving chair. I live in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. I am actually hoping for a fairly quick turnover time as have got quite a few games coming up plus I want to be more involved with my bowling club and be able to go up to the green whenever I want to get some practice without having to rely on someone being there to help me get up and down the green. Thank you
Hi Elizabeth. Just now (May 2023) you are looking at no more than two weeks between placing an order for a Powered Bowls Royce and delivery.
What is the weight of power bowls chair and weight of the scooter. Don't understand why the scooter has been approved by the powers to be but not the power chairs. Been told it is because of weight
Thank you for checking! Both the Bowls Scoot(15Kg) and the Bowls Royce power wheelchair (21Kg) *ARE* approved for use on indoor and outdoor surfaces. Be wary of 'being told' things by people who are making it up as they go along :-)
I have COPD and find walking difficult especially when pushing my bowls trolley. IUs there a motorised trolley that I could use. I play matches at home (where I can leave my woods) but outside games are now out of the question
We have looked around for a motorised trolley, e.g. a shopping trolley, but can't find one. We suggest you contact REMAP - remap.org.uk - who may be able to engineer a solution for you.... at no cost!
Thanks,
Jerry
Does the bowls Royce electric come with a fitted brake if not is it possible to fit one many thanks.
Hi,
Brakes are not fitted as standard to the electric Bowls Royce. Manual 'wheel locking' brakes(one on each wheel) can be supplied as an add-on to provide passive stability.
Thanks, Jerry
Do you manufacture a tyre for the Royce buggy manual version? Our bowler is having troubles indoors. He finds that he can spin the wheels quite easily and we think that a rubber tyre would give that friction.
The original Royce Buggys appear to have a more rubberised tyre fitted.
Yes, this can happen indoors where the bowler is self-propelling a manual Bowls Royce rather than having a colleague pushing.
To overcome this we offer a rubberised overlay that affixes to the tyre. This is only suitable if the Bowls Royce is to be permanently based at an indoor bowls club, as using it outdoors would destroy the foam and leave the tyre in a nasty condition.