INCREASING CAR LIFE

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31006, 11 March 1966, Page 14

INCREASING CAR LIFE

MoS2 Baron’s Visit

An engineer, Baron Rolf Beck of London, claimed in Christchurch that he could add 30 per cent to the life of every New Zealand car, tractor and truck with his frictionreducing additives for lubricating and fuel oils. It had been proved that a four-ton truck in England using his additives saved £2OO a year in “down-time” (when

a truck is inactive), in fuel and lubricating oil, and of spare parts, he said. The basis of Baron Beck’s additive products is molybdenum disulphide, which has the lowest co-efficient of friction of any known material. Born in Vienna of wealthy land-owner Austrian parents, he was a motor-car racing enthusiast as a young man. At the age of 17 years he won the “flying kilometre,” with a speed of 220 miles an hour in Geneva. From motor racing grew his interest in engine wear and conserving engine life. It has been a slow process, convincing people that his product was technically 100 per cent Today, the 53-year-old Baron had assets of more than £1 million and he was man-aging-director and major shareholder in the Slip Group of 25 companies which operates in 65 countries. Baron Beck this week met the Minister of Works (Mr Allen) and also the New Zealand distributors of his products.