Drive From Your Wheelchair Or Transfer With Confidence.
Available on:
- Mercedes-Benz V-Class
- Mercedes-Benz Vito
- Volkswagen Shuttle
- Ford Custom
Regaining control of your journey changes everything. Our wheelchair accessible vehicles are engineered to support safe, independent driving – whether you drive directly from your wheelchair or transfer into the driver’s seat.
Every configuration is designed around long-term comfort, safety and usability.
Drive From Your Wheelchair. For many clients, remaining seated in their wheelchair provides the safest and most sustainable driving solution.
Our drive-from-wheelchair vehicles feature:
- Side or rear lift access
- Flat, reinforced floor systems on Mercedes-Benz models
- Reinforced floor systems with plates on
- Secure crash-tested wheelchair anchorage
- Optimised driving eye line and control positioning
- Compatibility with steering and driving adaptations
Each vehicle is professionally prepared to ensure correct positioning, stability and control – not just initial fit, but long-term practicality.
Our Two-Stage Process
Stage 1 – Vehicle Preparation
We engineer the vehicle to safely position the driver at the steering wheel. This includes correct wheelchair anchorage, floor integration, eye line alignment and driving posture. The goal is stability, control and long-term practicality – not just initial fit
Stage 2 – Driving Adaptations
Once the vehicle is prepared, we work with a trusted local specialist adaptation company to install the most appropriate hand controls or bespoke driving systems to suit the individual driver’s needs. This structured approach ensures the vehicle platform is correctly engineered first – before adaptations are added – resulting in a safer, more sustainable driving solution.
Transfer to Drive
Available on V-Class/Vito/Transporter Shuttle/Ford Custom
For drivers who prefer or require transfer, we offer an electrically adjustable six-way transfer seat designed to make movement from wheelchair to driver’s seat safer and more controlled.
Key considerations include:
- Upper limb strength and endurance
- Safe and repeatable transfer
- Shoulder protection and fatigue management
- Long-term sustainability of use
We will advise honestly on whether transfer remains appropriate now and in the future.
Clinical & Assessment Support
We regularly work alongside:• Driving assessment centres
- Occupational therapists
- Case managers
- Rehabilitation teams
We provide measurement guidance, configuration advice and detailed quotations to support informed clinical recommendations.
Our focus is always suitability first – vehicle second.
Safety Without Compromise
Every Lewis Reed conversion includes:
- Crash-tested restraint systems
- Lift options tested up to 400kg
- Carefully integrated seating and floor systems
Safety, positioning and comfort are engineered together – never as an afterthought.
How the Six-Way Seat Works
The powered seat moves in six directions:
- Forwards and backwards
- Up and down
- Inwards and outwards
This allows the seat to be positioned closer to the wheelchair during transfer, lowered to reduce height difference, and adjusted to create the safest transfer angle.
Once seated, the driver can then fine-tune their position to achieve:
- Correct eye line
- Comfortable reach to steering wheel and controls
- Stable driving posture
The system is operated via simple, accessible controls and is designed to reduce strain during transfer.
Transfer-to-drive requires:
Transfer-to-drive requires:
- Sufficient upper body strength
- Safe and repeatable transfer technique
- Long-term shoulder protection
- Consistency across different parking environments
We assess whether transfer remains a sustainable solution over time and will advise honestly if drive-from may be more appropriate.