HOPE FOR SEAT OF LEARNING
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TOMORROW, Saturday, Mr. Fred Hope is to demonstrate the anti-jack-knife device made by his company—Self Energising Disc Brakes Ltd.—in Heidelberg, Germany. High-ranking US Army officers and representatives of the West German Government will be present.
The Americans have about 3,000 semi-trailers in Europe and are interested in the possibility of introducing new safety measures for their arties. The US Army has been asked to select what it considers to be one of its most jack-knife-prone combinations for the demonstrations, and equip it with the Hope device.
Service drivers are likely to be given a chance to demonstrate the device in action but, Mr. Hope told 'CM' this week, he will probably do the actual jack-knife runs with the device not in use. In previous runs of this type in Britain and the US he has earned the nickname of Fearless Fred.