The fire curled siding on the house next door, separated by a narrow alley barely the width of a car and filled with charred debris.

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"What we like about it is that if you can open your door, you can load or unload your wheelchair because it takes up no more width at the side of the vehicle than that, " said Neale Boulton of Steering Developments.

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