The best-selling car in the UK is currently produced by China's JAECOO, and is a triumph of both teamwork and advanced means of engineering and production. It is what develops principally in peace-time. Wartime in contrast actually benefits individuals and simplified means of production and deployment, as politicians are desperate for solutions as against consumers.
The above is a good example, and was pioneered by a Cambridge doctorate student whose expertise lay in biochemistry moreso than windows: his idea polyethylene sheet and a frame of PVC piping and foam insulation to create push-fit replacements for broken windows in Ukraine... which has many.
Lose a window in war in a place like that and you're instantly in the cold and dark as you plug gaps with whatever comes to hand... to the extent one old lady Harry was able to help was sleeping in the bath-tub, it being the warmest place to do so.
Things have moved on to blend modern production means with manual, in the way drones in Ukraine might still feature laser-cut carbon-fibre sheet, but modified with impromptu add-ons like canisters of optical fibre strapped on with duct tape.
Now therefore it comprises a bespoke uPVC extrusion into which two PET panes are inserted into four edges that engage using simple end-caps. The result looks barely different from what went before with a little expanding foam squeezed around the edges ~ except that being shatter-proof, it makes living safer as well as warmer.
Well done Harry, who has interrupted his studies to bring more light into the world.
And if you wish to make a donation, Harry's charity is at Insulate Ukraine.
Turn to your hymn-sheets now, to join in "What a Friend He Has in Colin".
Ed. France making the best family cars, Germany the executive, UK the Japanese.
