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By BASIL CARDEW
TESTED a remarkable new British Invention the other day that could take the terror out of parking on jurn-packed streets,
I drove a large car into a tiny space. back swung crabwlso into the kerbside.
It
It was quite the most vorla sensation I bayo had in a car to date. All thanks to a device
Invented by Archie Butterworth, a 48-year- old racing engine expert.
Firat 1 will tell you what happened-and then how it happened.
There was the usual line of care parked along the kerbalde and there was I In a furge saloon car wanting to park IL
One small "%lot" Arceunlod
itself.
But
when I measured up I found that I would
have only a foot of room to spare.
Sald Archie Butterworth: "You can get into that space. It's quite simple."
Undercarriage
1 followed his instructions. I drove the car front bumpers into the opening with the touching the car in trant, and the back whools out in the road at an angle of 45 degrees.
i declutched, then pressed a button on the dashboard, releasing a control valve, waited a second and engaged bottom gear. I pressed the accelerator, pedal in the normal way and the whole rear of the ear swung round off the road to nestle close in. to the herb.
How was it done? A form of retractable undercarriage, hydraulically operated, had come down from the back of the ear, lifting the rear wheels alightly off the ground.
The undercarriage was in the form of two Jacke or rams, and on their ends were rubber rollers which rested on the road.
Automatically the rollere meshed againet the tread of the rear wheels, so that as I pressed the throttle the back wheels rotated and in turn rotated the rollers which swung the car crabwise.
One foot spare
The car drove was so fitted that when I engaged bottom gear the back swung to the left and in reverse gear it swung to the right. Gold Mr Butterworth: "Thổ rubber rollers will last about the same time as set of tyres, and can be replaced for under 10s. And the whole equipmant's factory price should not be more than £10,
"We estimate that a good driver needs four feet to apare over the length of his car to get Into a kerbside space, and six feet when it is a big car.
"But with our crab-like Invention a car can ba porked with only a foot to spare. We reckon that will bring joy to women drivers for shopping and to business men who park Fo the usual crowded stroots."
THE CHINA-MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1957
solve the 'can't-squeeze-in' parking problem?
A space you would normally despair of-and how the 'sidlor' gets you into it
ROLEX
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This Factory 1 In 3 Workers
Cardow inspects the gap betweon his car and the car in front
The undercarriage in contact with the road -- and also how it retracts
In
To
Work
WISH Mr Gaitskell had come with me to the whom vote Socialist. steelworks on the banks of the Dee.
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There would have been so much to talk
about on the way home.
1 wonder if Mr Gaitskell
they would continue to negotiate with us."
of nationalisation. He said they were not haterested in it. And he explained, "Of course, we of couldn't have better people to
work for,"
And by our people he meant his 10,000 workers, many
Cime
where
in, and from. exports could be shipped.
And Henry's con, Richard, is now the head of the concern, with two of his sons, Peter and Tim, already in the business. They, management and workers, have known each other There are all sorts of joint long enough This is very organisations
On all aspects, largely a two-sided family alfalt. from production and wages, to
It was old John Summers who safety and sports, inspired all this. He used to make clogs in Stalybridge, Cheshire, more than
100 years
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But what about the unfortunate unassisted cars you sandwich? EDITOR
Drives
relations, Nor can they say.it is poorly paid.
I saw no evidence on the Dee of a demond for nationalisation from the workers in steel.
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BQW. ample evidence expansion for the future, evan to reclaiming land from the MET u few of the leading
tidal water by battering down trade union men at the plant.
The refuse from the plant, thus I failed to And any strong
adding a bit more to Wales, advocate of steel nationalisation,
There is in the Sociallat new One of the most impressive men
pich
for nationalisation, would be quite as fervent by TREVOR EVANS met at Shotton was Mr Walter go
THIS plant, like most others promise that a firm which does Jones, leading member of the He decided to make his own in steel, has a remarkable well by the nation will not be steelmen's alon, and vice-chair- nails, so he made rough steel record of internal pesce. There taken over... Obviously, that was a dispute in 1934-between promise will not apply to steel. man of the joint pdvisory com- sheets. mitee at the works.
His son, Henry Hall Summers, two unions,
Yet, what can be wrong with A thoughtful, deliberate dad bought this black land on the So the Socirlist planners can in industry which commanda of man with more than 40 years banks of the Dee in the phicties hardly claim they want to the energy and loyalty of a to- service at the plant. I asked of last century because it was nationalise steel because it has time's service from snen of pride
the ore શ bad record of Industrial and skill? him what his members thought near Liverpool where
this challenge to every industry in Britain.
about nationalising steel after talking to all sorts of people who work in it?
loosely, in general terms. There is no reason to sup He wasn't. pose that this place, barely
There are 2,100 motor three miles outside the
and Cars,
1,019 motor boundaries of historic Chea- cycles. New applications tar, is out of step with the are coming in daily. rest of the industry.
First hands at the fur- naces frequently take home more than £30 a week. The odd one has been known to
£1,000 a year
SUM- take home £40 at peak MERS, the chairman perio:ls, and
MR RICHARD
of the company, was driv- for all is £15 a ing me through his works most of when I commented how odd boys in the £1,000
it was to see, a car park class.
around the corner of almost
every
building. Finding more space for motor-cars was going to be a problem,
he said. Whose cars?
the
the average week, with production
a year
The word
IT was during our discussion
'bout future expansion plans
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He looked at me in some that I mentioned THE WORD. surprise. Why, he said, Mr Summers was explaining the people who work here. how the present production of tons of steel, mainly Then he explained that so 1,000,000 big is this site-it stretches in sheets for motor-cars, drums over 10,000 acres, though and such household goods
refrigerators and wishing far buildings, offices, machines, would bc up to mille
furruces and coke nefrly 2,000,000 tons a year in Dvens Occupy only about about five years time, when I one-quarter of the Summers said it,
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that every vehicle
I asked: "But what about renationalisation?'s
hip
reaction.
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land bears a special label to There was more sorrow than speed its coming and going anger in through tho patrolled shrugged his shoulders gates.
said: "We go ahead, whatever happens."
So I asked what difference
There are 10,000 work- ing hore. Nearly 8,200 nationalisation had made when
labels have been issued.
it was tried by the last Bocfallat
Nearly one-third come to Government. Hardly any at all,
work in motor cara or
The firm, still went ahoud. "And"
011 the Mr Suminary observed
"Our people didn't
motor cyclea, I thought causally: Mr.Summers, was talking mind when they realised that
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