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• by Pete Swingler

17th January 2002
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Keywords : Airjack, Inventio, Asda, Leroy

An Asda driver may be on road to becoming a million after sinking his life savings i an invention he dreamt behind the wheel of his vehi Leeroy Brown, of Stechfe Birmingham, has invented a 1 jack that uses compressed He has invested his £12,I life savings into Airjack 2( over the past four years am set to reap the rewards af winning a patent for the proje His invention was due to be fi tired on a new BBC 1 televis programme, Best Inventio last night (Wednesday January). He now hopes to la from companies which want manufacture the Airjack.

Brown says: '1 was driv down the motorway when I s this man in a collar and tie try to find the jacking point on I car in the pouring rain. I thug there must be an easier w than using little scissor jacl With my design drivers just ha to plug the airjack into the cig rette lighter, place it under t nearside sill of the vehicle a press a button to lift it up.

"In all, I have invest £12,500 into my invention, whi is a hell of a lot of money fore but I just believed in the idei Brown left school at 16 a; trained as a mechanic; he h. driven for Asda for the past years. His friend, draughtsm; Stephen Carter, helped hi design the Airjack.

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Locations: Birmingham

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