MOTOR-CAR INVENTION.
ABSORPTION OF SHOCKS. SUCCESSFUL GERMAN DESIGN.: Australian and N.Z. Press Association. BERLIN. April 26. The driver of a motor-car deliberately crashed into a tree when at a speed of 20 miles an hour to-day, to demonstrate an invention of considerable importance to motorists. Neither car nor driver was in the least injured, because the entire shock was absorbed by a solid rubber tube fixed to moveable steel clamps in the front and rear of the car. These are similar outwardly to the present universal bumper bars. Two cars that were so fitted tfyen met in a head-on collision at the same speed and no damage resulted. In a third test a pedestrian was run down harmlessly, as he was thrown aside by the The demonstrations were filmed. Engineers and experts gave the invention an enthusiastic reception. A leading German insurance company was so impressed that it offered a 25 per cent, reduction in rates on cars fitted with the invention.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19932, 28 April 1928, Page 11
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