New Buffers Allow Motors to Crash Without Damage
(United, P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association) BERLIN, Thursday. A MOTOR-CAR deliberately crashed into a tree at a speed of 20 miles an hour to-day, to demonstrate an invention of considerable importance to the motor world. Neither the car nor the driver was in the least injured, because the entire shock was absorbed by a solid rubber tube fixed to moveable steel clamps at the front and rear of the car, exactly similar outwardly to the present universal bumper bars. Two ears were so fitted and then met in a head-on collision at the same speed, no damage resulting. In a third test, a pedestrian was run down and harmlessly thrown from the buffers. The demonstrations were filmed, and engineers and experts gave the inventor an enthusiastic reception. A leading German insurance company was so impressed that it offered a 25 per cent, reduction in rates on cars so fitted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 13
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158New Buffers Allow Motors to Crash Without Damage Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 340, 28 April 1928, Page 13
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