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Cover-up costs Britain a seven year lead in developing SALi Technology
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We Brit’s have a long history of coming up with profitable inventions, and then leaving others to gain from them. Computers, the jet engine, penicillin, body scanners, radar and railways are some of the many British inventions that have made other nations rich. If you want to witness how our sad history is repeating itself, please read on.
Article summary
What Britain is losing:
About 45 million
road vehicles are manufactured world-wide each year. Suspension
manufacturing is a Multi-Million Pound segment of this industry. As we
pull out of recession, an opportunity
to create world beating manufacturing jobs is being lost. 1. The SALi suspension unit concept The diagram below illustrates the prototype suspension unit specified in the CrashSALi research contract. The British research laboratories of the Malaysian Rubber Producers Research Association (MRPRA) advised on the materials to be used.
* The British prototype suspension unit This
lightweight unit does not require any precision made parts, so
manufacturing costs should be low. The design could be used for a wide
range of vibration isolation applications in mechanical and civil
engineering. 2. The Chinese bid to take the lead in SALi suspension development In
July 2009, Bill Courtney, the inventor of SALi Technology, made a
disturbing discovery. State funded research into SALi based vibration
isolators is making rapid progress in China.
Bill promptly wrote to the authors, but they
were not interested in a British-Chinese collaboration. They have also
refused to sign a licensing agreement to legitimise their work.
The authors present detailed research results and then come to an optimistic conclusion.
Reference 2 above, page 4. This promise of “outstanding performance and a good prospect in engineering practice” should be a wakeup call to a sleepy Britain. A business rival is developing know-how that could take engineering jobs from Britain as we move out of recession. The
Nanjing publications include plagiarised material from Bill's 1998 MPhil
research thesis. This material is very difficult to get hold of; there’s
only one public copy of Bill’s thesis. It’s hidden away in the Manchester
University archives.
This
is a reproduction of Figure 1 in Teng and. Chen, reference 1 above.
Courtney, W.A.
Preliminary investigations into the mechanical properties and potential
applications of a novel shock absorbing liquid, MPhil Thesis,
Manchester School of Engineering, University of Manchester (1998) 3. CrashSALi 3.1
Documentary proof that SALi based suspension systems are a British
invention
3.2 How Britain lost a seven year technology lead For some puzzling reason that has never been explained, the contractually agreed materials were not used for the University research.
The failure of poor
materials should have shown up clearly in the research results as a
gradual tailing off in performance over several oscillation cycles.
However, the University CrashSALi report only included test results for a
single impact, so the evidence of poor research remained hidden. 4 The cover-up Please contact us for details of the cover-up.
Below: a timeline of the key events.
Wake up, sleepy Britain!
Other SALi projects: Sassy Hats, PedSALi
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