HORSE OF STEEL RUNS ACROSS FIELDS
A mechanical horse that trots and gallops on steel-pipe legs, under the impulse of a gasoline engine, is the recent product of an Italian inventor. With this horse, he declares, children may be trained to ride. The Iron Dobbin is said to canter along a road or across a rough field with equal ease. Its design recalls the attempts of inventors, before the days of the automobile, to imitate nature and produce a mechanical steed capable of drawing a wagon.
~ Popular Science magazine, April 1933
Italian Fascist Youth Movement (GIL) riders on traditional horses
Italian Strange Vehicles