Challenge to youth
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BP Oil's Buildacar Competition, which is part of the company' 'challenge to youth' scheme, is to be widened to include non-oil sources of energy, such as electricity, coal, steam and wind. Natural or liquid gas is excluded because of its hazards.
Schools taking part in the project are to produce a study of the form of personal-transport likely to be used in towns in 2025. The finals of the competition will be held in 1980.
Southbrook Comprehensive School, Daventry, won the finals staged two months ago. Pupils produced a revolutionary "Add -A car."
It is a pity that the project does not take in commercial vehicles. I am sure that stimulating ideas on the bus as the means of personal transport in the next century could be produced by imaginative youngsters. The last word on lorry design has not yet been spoken, either.