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I came up with the first tow truck idea, the "hooklift," the bike lift, the bicycle and the software. All the patents are in our names so you can check if you want.

When I came to Europe y years ago, I had already made 20 improvements to the hook lift. I still have my fathers original design and in 30 years the design of the hook has not changed. I just can't believe it. it is exactly the same.

I just came up withe the ideas and made the prototypes and my dad did all the engineering and calculations and Vulcan made most of the money until Mr. Alms kids screwed everything up including not giving my father all his severance pay.

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He created a crank pump for all kinds of liquids, including gas for planes, so they could be fueled directly from the drum; faster than a regular "up and down pump." The ones they made for the Germans during the war, they put impurities into the oil compartment and those impurities with fine metal filings went into the motor causing all kinds of problems, for the Germans. iT WAS GOOD TO "STICK-IT TO THE GERMANS for taking over their factories, but they were playing a dangerous game. When the Germans brought the pump back to see if there was something wrong with it, one of my uncles filled it up with more bad stuff and gave it back to them. I am not sure of the number of planes it put out of commission, but I was told it was alot between 20 and 40. After they were returning many of the pumps, my grandfather told my uncle to fix most of them but to make sure some still didn't work. This took out another 18 planes before my grandfather said to my uncle it is not time to fix all the pumps. The Germans never found out why they had so many problems with the motors and they did not really know which pumps they were using for which planes. Later when the Nazis started paying attention, my grand father was told and he took the appropriate steps to make sure that no one ever knew. But the Germans were always digging for the truth and he is sure that in time they would have figured it out bit the germans were already loosing the war and had many other problems in the end, which kind of back fired on my family as the Germans during their retrets where blowing up their own factories so they would not be useful to the advacing Russian army.

As the story goes, the ones they made for the Germans, during the war which Jammed on occasion and and ones the "Underground" got, where flawless. My Grandfather, also "Leslie Bubik", was playing a dangerous game. I have lots of stories which I am sharing with you here.

We were a great team, when we could work together because I dreamed it up, he designed it, we prototyped it, and then it went into production after it was patented. We listened to our suppliers, distributors and customers; improving it.

I remember when we took the invention to the Department of transport asked them what they thought of it to be able to take eight people downtown pull the pin out of the frame collapsed the vehicle to a tube you to a two person vehicle and then park it.

This way it would take a fraction of the space for parking the people would get downtown, and there will be zero omissions. They looked at us like we were on drugs. And they told us that this would never be a viable product. So we listen to them and drop the project, even though I took the world almost 40 years to figure out that we were right. What can you do ?

The three innovations which I did with my father have to be put into separate pages because is just too much information here you can have a little picture of each thing if you want I don't know if you have a picture of the electric car anymore I have it somewhere but I don't exactly know it is a picture not available or something like that and the information somewhere else that doesn't take away from the rest of the page I leave it up to you to figure it out I can see that your creative enough

Yes General Motors came to my father and told him that they're going to start to change the way they make cars so that they won't have the Chrome bumpers anymore they're going to use plastic on the outside were the bumpers used to be and they need a new way to tow the car's so that because conventional towing would damage the bumpers. Conventional towing in those days was using a rubber sling which would damage the new plastic bumpers. It took me all but 15 seconds to come up with the idea that to tow by the tires using the shocks of the car in combination with the tow truck that's pulling at will greatly reduce the stress on the rear part of a tow truck and on the car itself. This just makes common sense to me anybody can figure this out is not a big deal designing and building that's the big deal I just came up with the idea.

A device at the end of a boom which would prevent under that boom and the boom must be telescopic so that it can be adjusted to the type of vehicle you're towing and that's all that my dad needed to create the picture underneath.

My arms that came out to hold the tire had to be changed because those rigid arms weren't good enough to tow all types of vehicles like bands and other things that were unusual sizes so my father came up with the sling which was made out of plastic fiber but it was extremely strong to lift cars in the cradle snatcher was born.

You can read the story below but eventually my father was also the first one to figure out how to tow two cars at the at the same time using the same's the same idea but now from underneath the vehicle rather than over the top which you will see the pictures as the tow trucks progressed below now the whole world is using using the same kind of method for towing cars.

It is safer, more practical, faster, and damage free.

Within 4 minutes I came up with this except my concept design (I was too young to be an engineer) was the back boom was made entirely of metal.

My dad made the design much better by putting straps on it. Below was one of the firt ones we made for testing purposes. Later we added colours and other toys . It didn't have a name yet in the picture below. I didn't come up with the name but tow truck drivers loved the product. We listered to what our distributors told us and made the modifications to the tow truck to make it more appealing to both the tow trucks indipendants and the big companies.

I designed this mechanism above when I was 15 Not bad for a kid, eh??? My company my dad was working for made Millions The Company? Vulcan Equipment I remember that Vulcan Equipment, that that time on 95 Research Rd., and had a prototype within 6 months and had sold a whole whack of them to the Police. I am very sorry to admit to the fact that you can thank me for designing the first town truck, that could tow a car out of a parked place.

Later models were made with fancier colors and other newly improved features. My dad came up with many innovative variations to what this thing could lift.

Not showing hydraulic hoses and all kinds of garbage on the outside of the vehicle. Like most people do. A lot of engineers don't like me too much does it have to sit around and try to dream the stuff up and they're not very good at it but my dad was pretty good at it even in his own right even in other designs he created well before I was ever born. I think that this product was just a fabrication of luck,

If my father wasn't an engineer this never would have become reality.

And if my father didn't work at a place that the guy wanted innovation nothing would have ever been developed.

And if he didn't have the money to back it nothing never would've happened.

So it's a combination of luck, more luck, and even more luck.

In much of the things that I've created over my lifetime I would say that it's maybe 20% skill and 80% luck.

I believe it is the only tow tuck in the world can could tow motorcycles very easily.

Then when you have the right team put together of marketing experts sales experts and a whole package then you can really sell product which we did. Soon the managers forgot were all the products came from and start started to cut the size of the new product development Department down where all the original innovation came from which was a very big mistake and they figured this out when it was too late many companies make the same mistake is very common..

Today, most cars are towed in this way in fact that seen an automated version of this whereby in tunnels and bridges work towing is essential to be very quick the operator of the vehicle doesn't even have to get out the tow truck backs up automatically to the car the wheel pertaining Dolly automatically slides underneath the car grabs the tires lifts the vehicle and pulls it out and within a minute. Innovation is still brewing and I love to see it.

Then came the really big stuff which the Canadian Military wanted these tow trucks for the field

What about all the things I do not have pictures of

Crane trolley, Forging manipulator, ore feeding conveyer, copy milling machine, suction oil drilling platforms, production line of laminates for plastic company, for plywood company, machine to make books, for Schick razors he made a machine that would pack 10 razors to every package, press rollers and uni rollers, grinding wheel press, flying sheer, steering for those military vehicles the navy seals use, steering for all types of specialty aircraft for the U.S. Military, all types of hydraulic cylinders and switches, production press, deck cranes for the U.S. NAVY, Mobile cranes, Air control valves, Special rubber piston seals, assorted furniture and lamps, tire re-treading machines, panel saw, electro hydraulic devices, wheel dollies to carry heavy parts from one end of a factory to another and you should push it with one finger (amazing), wood planer, Subway tunnel washing machine horse race starting gate which all open at exactly the same time. He has some 38 patents to his name.

I only have 2

I could make a separate web site just on my dads stuff and it would take me 5 years to compile it. He eventually figured out how to tow two cars at the same time.

After going into into the tow truck business we created the worlds first tow truck that could take car out of a parked place. This joint venture with my dad and I, put Vulcan on the map. I regret having come up with this idea. The police forces around the world particularly liked this one.

It was very versatile. In the end they were selling all over the world, even Japan

with the special wheel dolly by father designed, cars that were completely damaged could still be towed.

them improvements followed and then too and the company grew and grew fast. Everyone wanted the type of towtrucks

Later there was a military version created but by this time there where too many people working on this project and Vulcan screwed it up but that is just my opinion.

We didn't go out with the intention of changing the world. It just happened. It was a byproduct of what we created. The money was also a byproduct of what we created. But many of these inventions unfortunately are used for evil purposes rather than the good. And the inventor has no control over that. One of these inventions as an amazing thing that was that everybody uses for good almost and the other one is something that was truly amazing that was used for evil purposes. What I mean by evil purposes is that police and other organizations who love to tow your cars when you parked in bad places I'm talking about that kind of evil because I invented a tow truck to take the car out of a Park Place were no other tow truck could ever do before and now the whole world uses exactly that type of technology.

with the hook lift truck, which we created together. We originally Licensed a variation of it from a French company to make improvements on theirs and this is what we came up with. But no one wanted it in Canada, so we sold the patents for the new device back to the French company and not even realizing it, changed the way goods are transported throughout Europe and also changed the way, the military moves its' support lines forward.

I quit doing work for them and my father, after they sold it, because I wanted one for myself. I wanted to develop mobile offices and specialty containers but the company didn't think it would go anywhere. No body is perfect!

Now electrical generating plants an be picked up with ease and delivered anywhere. I spoke to a solider who told me that this type of vehicle is great because it is only a target 1/2 the time. He said that when then truck is transporting something it is a target, but when it is going back to pick up another container, it is not, so the trucks last much longer in battle. Cool eh???

Here are some other cool variations I have seen, but you know, in almost 40 years, I have only seen one improvement to the original hook, and since then I have come up with another 40 and when I try to contact companies here in Europe to see if we can do something together, no one ever called me back. Hmmm. Something is wrong with Europe.

What is so cool about the military truck I was told by a colonel in the U.S. Army and another in the German army told me that these hook lifts are fantastic because they are not but targets while they are not transporting goods so they have a better chance of surviving a war unlike other trucks that have things on them that are fixed for example indications truck is a good target to hit or other things. But a hook lift that is caring things like medical supplies containers are only a target when they have something on the back of them and when they don't people don't concern themselves with them so they end up saving more machines saving also costs of machines down the road for the governments that ordered them.

German, French and American innovations too. Including the perfection of the Kit Kat bar. These are the list of my fathers patents and even some of mine too.

deck cranes for ships and Helicopter landing pads in ships that did not have them in their original designs. My dad added them later. (well he didn't - he just designed them)

My father tried to teach me mechanical design, but I just wanted to skip that part and go straight to the building of it. It drove my dad nuts. I guess it was the only way I could have any fun.

He showed me at least how to fix my own cars, change the brakes and things like that. I learned at a very early age that nothing is impossible when you have the right compliations of talent and bart of the battle is knowing what kind of talent you need.

My father understood the stresses put on various metals. He designed the steering of many other things that fly and go along the ground. Like this interesting thing (below)

You know what I find a little strange. That a company would design something and then only find out it does not work when they start to manufacture it. How stupid is that?? My dad fixed a lot of these types of things.

I remember when I was a kid and my dad took me on the set of Gun Smoke. A western TV show (shot in Canada) What would an engineer be doing there, I here you cry?

He designed all the movable sets. You see all those building were not real, just some of them. The rest were just fronts, moved around in different sequences to give the illusion of different towns. I met some of the actors. I remember Loren Green. But it was sure fun to see it all in real life. I was around 5 or 6 years old at the time.

My father designed whole assembly lines as Automation was one of his professions Laminate machines and robots. He was doing robotics when other were just dreaming of them. (below) I saw this thing work when I was a kid.

Another interesting product which my dad designed for Pathex. It was a copying machine milling head. Which would be like a 3d printer today except it would copy and mill the copy out of steel and not plastic.

All terrain vehicles for a company who got a U.S. military contract and could not figure out the steering of these newly designed vehicles. They called my dad in to figure it out.

Still working on the list.

World first copy milling head/pre computer. Only now they have the same thing a computer does now.

I saw it and it works the same way as my dads copier worked.

Impellers for the Harrier Jet, so that you can fire bullets into the turbine and it will not effect the engines performance.

He designed things that no one could design. I just don't get it. That is the reason we have engineers to figure it out. But the countries of the world always hired my dad to do the seamingly impossible things and he was always able to figure it out.

Vertical take off aircraft, designed the propellers so it took take off like a helecoper then flew like a plane. When a project this like is being done, usually 200 engineers are working on different parts of it. And then there is all the electronics.

My father was involved designed things for the U.S. military, like the steering of the air launched cruise missile , so that it can hug the terrain and accurately fly under the enemies radar.

One in particular got very famous in the racing circuit because it was the only hydraulic jack that could lift a car in 1 second. It was called the Jiffy Jack and the Germans even admired it in an article as one of the 4 best designs in the world. Cool eh?

ater he started dabbling in a tow mechanism that would fit on the back of a pickup truck

My father also designed many car lifts. This was one of the first ones I saw. Still using the old sling type of lift to be mounted onto the back of a pick-up truck, so it could pull another car. Later below, my dad worked on other things like hoists for cars but nothing really took off like the towtruck idea I cam up with

All kinds of Automated Processes like the Kit Kat Bar when Rountree approached my dad because they were having problems with a lot of waste in their main plant. I remember when I was a kid, my dad used to bring boxes of broken Kit Kat bars from the "line." I had so many friends then....yes because of the almost unlimited supply of Kit Kat bars. I don't remember how long it too. It wasn't very long. But my dad fixed the problem and soon he brought home no Kit Kat bars.

Deck cranes for the U.S. Navy. What is the most Amazing thing to me is the U.S. Navy could afford anybody. The best in the world. They hired my dad to do a few things.

Underwater submarine rescue equipment and

My father is 92 now but now we are working on a new kind of a roof turbine, that does not stick out like a sore thumb.

Vulcan sold it to FMC at the time for a lot and then they sold it to someone else for a lot more. Amazing isn't it.

Below it was distributed by Vulcan and later sold to FMC then as the story goes Coats bought it for a few million more.

Sold to FMC for just over a million and a half it had paid for itself over and over again. Have you seen one of these in your local automotive garage?

Most garage owners even after 30 years still think it is the best one on the market. Now that is impressive.

The only reason they are replacing them is because of the new larger wheel sizes the 19" and more require the different type of machine.

Here above after it was sold to FMC and then later coats it kept changing hands making millions more each time.

this was the rd thing I did with my dad to change the world and how we live in it.

He specialized in created re treading tire machines and rubber ovens to cure the tires

Here you could see it in action. We had to also create a Military wheel dolly to carry damaged vehicles. We have all the original drawings and patents. I have seen many companies claim that they figured it all out. But it was not them. It was us and we can prove it all.

I remember when I was in a kid, that I was in a plant in the states that had just finished one and it was being picked up by one very big military helicopter, then it was air lifted to one of the ships for installation.

COOL!!!!

The ultra-lite aircraft company were having programs steering their planes my dad figured it out.

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I guess you could say that my dad was also an overachiever AND the Apple never falls far from the tree.

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Leslie Bubik Sr. My Dad has some 38 patents to his name. Most of the things that Vulcan equipment is or was manufacturing were invented by my dad. All except for one thing. The only tow truck that could take a car out of a parked place. I thought if a trailer follows a car with great ease, then this boom thing I came up with may be able, to remove a car from a parked spot. Many of his designs have changed the world from a little to a lot. I have only a few patents and came up with the original concept for the "Vulcan Wheel lift." When I was 15, my dad came to me and said that if I can figure out a way to tow cars in an easier manner than was presently being done, that I would get the bicycle and stereo of my choice.

Get your mind out to the gutter. This is a concrete vibrator used to take the care out of concrete as it is being poured, and allowing it to settle properly in it's mould.

Then came the really big tow trucks to tow the really big things like buses and cranes.

He was one of the first to use robots. which he also designed, to move heavy laminates from one part of an automated assembly line which he also designed.

But we are basically only limited by the laws of physics, so if you need something designed and it does not matter what it is, I can assure you of that, (anything mechanical or electro-mechanical) I have a new design for a new revolutionary tow truck but I think I will just keep it to myself this time. My father who is now 96, has close to 50 years engineering experience and has been recognized by Design Canada for many of his achievements.

Here they put 4 seconds because they thought now one would believe the add. But 4 seconds was much too long.

Here the "jiffy Jack" would lift a car off the ground in about 1 or 2 seconds. Later used by the Racing industry to lift race cars

A razor blade packing machine for Schick

I saw it work when I was a kid. it put ten razors into each box in about a second with no errors

One of my dads specialties was automation

One year, when I was a kid, in a German Magazine (below) admiring the best designs, in the world. Of the 4, 2 were ours. COOL Eh? The Jiffy Jack was popular in the racing circuit for a while because it could lift and drop a car in about a second. And the Cradle snatcher as it would be known would be the best selling tow truck in the world for many many years. Well until the patents expired and every one started copying.

Horse Racing Gates for the Canadians The only series of gates that all open at precisely the same time. They came to my dad to figure this one out. Not bad eh? I see those gates everywhere now. Even in Europe. Their distinctive green and white colours. He also designed them to make them more portable.

They came back to my dad, after it was finished, because the customer could not get the gates off the track fast enough after the race started. I could,'t beleive what I was hearing. So we added wheels. YES WHEELS so it could be pulled off the track faster. My dad was only asked to design the new gate.

Assorted Hoists and Tow trucks (big and small) for Vulcan Equipment CANADA including the big monster above. Most of the things Vulcan equipment had produced in the past Automotive related, he designed.

By that time he had a large R and D department and one of his drafts men was Japanese named Ken Murimatsu. I wonder what ever happened to him. I helped his and his wife build a Japanese restaurant. Because his wife wanted to go into the business. Because I have a diploma from Ryerson University in Hospitality interior design, I helped them design and build it. I also have a Piece of paper in Hotel and Restaurant Management as well as in Resort and Hospitality Management, just in case you are interested to know. I was one of those kids who could make his mind up what he wanted to do. I guess I can always get a job in a hotel.

Mike Bogdan of Hungary and others who helped my dad in the new product development area of Vulcan equipment. By that time I was no longer there and soon my dad retired too.

He has single handily designed machines that must be collectively produced trillions in revenue for all these companies over the years and I guess if you were to take all of them and add their revenues, jobs they created all over the world combined, I don't know what comes after trillions but whatever that number is, I have no doubt it is up there somewhere. Have you seen these around?

Much faster than the hand ones you see constuction workers using on the streets. Concrete Vibrators, Crust manipulators. A machine that did the work of 20 men using jackhammers and never got tired.

Vulcan was the leading company in Tire Retreating equipment. This is true Recycling of tires

My dad helped design the military tow truck, by this time there were 200 engineers and no one knew what was going on. Look at this thing below. It looks like it was designed by 5 year old. They also put a crane on it to make it more versatile. They put all their eggs inone basket. I have done this too in business. It is very dangerous because you make one mistake and you can lose everything.

Military hook lift. One truck and 15 containers, tool shops to move around for mobile hospitals and more

Almost anything can be lifted and transported. we did not design the containers. those where done by other companies

How did I come up with the idea? Simple really when you hand you coat over your shoulder, you usually do with with a finger or too and drape it over your shoulder and you put it up onto your shoulder. That is how the idea became a truck Cool eh??? I love engineering stuff.

And now I do cheap engineering, just for myself.

That is Ken Murimatzu (I am not sure of the spelling) above He was a Japanese engineer. My dads department grew and later my dad was working with 4 other engineers.

My father and his team in New product development made Vulcan a very rich company.

After my dad retired and the owner eventually died and then the Alm sons took is over and really screwed up that company. I told my dad they would screw the company up within 10 years but it only took them 3 years.

I have many fond memories of hanging out there including a few summer jobs driving a fork lift and loading the trucks which never seemed to end. They were waiting in lines to take the products away.

I remember one year when Design CANADA put out there stuff about the 4 best designs in CANADA and three of them were my dads I also remember an article about the 4 best designs in the world the three of them where my dads the 4th was that high speed train in Japan.

I designed the handy-hoist is 20 minutes, It took 3 years t get a patent and 4 guys from the government to screw up a deal. Here a petite women illustrates how easy it is to lift a bike onto the top of a car with great ease.

After producing the prototype I found a partner by walking in off the street to a carpark producing company who develops their own stamping forms for the automotive industry he took one look at the device and said I will be your partner and he started to manufacture and produce it and I went in on weekends to help and we we made a much more beautiful looking unit and that's the one that sitting on top of my old car when the model came to demonstrate it.

And the only reason that Canadian tire ordered so many was I know the owner of one of the Canadian tire stores who told me that I could demonstrate my product for free outside his store which was a pretty big store and I got lots of people that were interested in it including the corporate executives at Canadian tire.

50 years ahead of it's time. Canadian Tire Ordered 19,000 units and in the middle of the deal told us to provide them with a colours box. Just before the signing of the deal, my mother got sick and I had to walk away from the deal.

Because I was also the new product development guy, I came up with the tandem lifter prototype which by the end when we decided not to produce this product because of the dangers of the consumer not installing these properly on their vehicles and the insurance company giving us scenarios the types of accidents that could happen. We decided not to go through with the project in the end and a Chinese dentist bought the tandem version is seen here below and he was the happiest guy in the world because he was able to lift it up onto the top of his minivan by himself. Even though we had to make him an extension rod to be old to push the bike up and we made it spring assisted because his tandem was so heavy. But it worked extremely well

Has a U.S. and Canadian Patent

This one above was a the tandem lifter. One one was made to see if a short Chinese person could lift it up onto a mini van

It worked.

Now the U.S. Military has copied the HANDY HOIST to put missiles onto the top of Hummers (not above)

I think next to My HANDY-HOIST, THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS i EVER DESIGNED.

Do you know how long it takes to get a u.s. Patent? 1 Year. In Canada 12 years!! 12 Years!!! What the heck!

LIFT AND GO HOOK LIFT. VULCAN SOLD THIS FOR TWO MILLION BUT IF THEY WAITED JUST 4 YEARS THEY COULD HAVE SOLD IT FOR 20. But let's not forget the Alm kids were running the show now, they had no idea what they were doing. I wanted to buy one for myself but they didn't want to give me one, since the different variations and the military version shown below, I have figured out a few things. After my dad left Vulcan. It DIDN'T TAKE LONG TO FALL APART.

Military hook lift. One truck and 15 containers, tool shops to move around for mobile hospitals and more

The military version is even more cool because where it used to take several trucks to carry around tall the stuff they need. Now all they new are a dew trucks and they move their buildings around instead cool eh???

"MY DAD AND I SHOULD HAVE WON SOME KIND OF AN AWARD FOR THIS PRODUCT BUT NEVER DID. DO THEY HAVE AWARD IN ENGINEERING LIKE THEY DO FOR MOVIES? IF NOT. THEY SHOULD!"

I have several improvements to the designs but I have never seen them improved much in the last 30 years. They basically IT looks the same which tell you what a good design it was. But there is always room for improvement and I am now looking for a company who makes them . The hook and go, as I like to call it are the best thing I ever created and the sky is the limit with what you can do with these things.

Almost anything can be lifted and transported. we did not design the containers. those where done by other companies

It was originally designed to lift cars but I told my dad it could lift a shop like for a trades person who can leave all his tools at one pace while he moves his office to another. This concept took off. But my this time it was already owned by another company.

How did I come up with the idea? Simple really when you hang you coat over your shoulder, you usually do with with a finger or too and drape it over your shoulder and you pull it up onto your shoulder. That is how the idea became a truck Cool eh??? I love engineering stuff. Now you can see these being produced under different names. Multi-lift, (made in Sweden I think) (good name) Swamp Loader (also good) lift more than just cars and containers. And the design haven't changed much in the last 30 years. But I have many improvements and Ideas which I would like to share with the right company. All the Patents are under my fathers name Leslie Bubik and it is easy enough to check. My father has 38 patents to his name and I have two and as far as I am concerned, I have two too many. Ampliroll, a French company may have been the first ones to buy it. It was 35 yeas ago and I was not involved with the sale of products. But I am sure someone knows something.

FMC bought my fathers tire changer and garages and still using them today. Now that is cool too! I also remember Coats buying it. Perhaps coats bought it from FMC who knows.

If you do not get your product and sell your idea and make your money within 7 years when you patent something. ( 7 years goes by very quickly when you are creating machines) then everyone can copy you and compete against you. You are not really protected unless you have the means to pay a whole battery of lawyers to keep your product safe.

My father and his team in New product development made Vulcan a very rich company.

After my dad retired and the owner eventually died and then the Alms sons took is over and really screwed up that company.

I have many fond memories of hanging out there including a few summer jobs driving a fork lift and loading the trucks which never seemed to end. They were waiting in lines to take the products away.

I remember one year when Design CANADA put out there stuff about the 4 best designs in CANADA and three of them were my dads I also remember an article about the 4 best designs in the world the One was mime, one was my dads. the 3rd was a portable 12v compressor the 4th was that high speed train in Japan. Cool eh?

This is a self powering solar trailer Specifically designed to provide additional power for an electric Tricycle which I did not design but modified. (I added another solar panel to the top)

This is what it looks like. it goes 20 km/hr. for 60km. Though it will not break any speed records, it is the first "off grid" designed system which actually works. I use this prototype to buy groceries and run errands. I use it when I am not in a hurry. I save on parking and fuel and even time because i don't have to look for parking. It produces no carbon or any pollutants. It is completely GREEN.

And it is always charging. This is the best thing.

The trailer can be detached and re-attached to something else like a regular bicycle to he used as a power source for a camp site or to power a laptop and a cell phone.