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Car seat campaign gets cash injection
A
fintaPart, a Midas Group-owned
truck parts distributor that
supplies genuine parts from OE
and quality guaranteed replacement
parts for light and medium commercial
vehicles, has donated 150 booster car
seats to Wheel Well.
Wheel Well is a non-profit organisation
based at Randburg’s Brightwater
Commons Shopping Centre. It collects
used car seats for children in the
interests of road safety and “Strives
to be the most visible, audible and
effective advocate of Road Safety for
Children in South Africa.”
for its seven-year infrastructure
development programme. Resultant
life-long disabilities and the appropriate
need for medical care after road
accidents are factors that many do not
realise must be accounted for.
➲ Peggie Mars, director of Wheel Well and
Wayne Lodder, director of AfintaPart (Pty) Limited
at the handover
Roads are purported to be the single
biggest killer of young people over the
age of 10 and locally three children
under the age of 15 die each day on our
roads. There is a critical need for booster
car seats to be made available wherever
possible.
“What many people don’t realise is that the economic cost of road
fatalities over an extended period is far more of a burden than we
care to think,” says director of AfintaPart, Wayne Lodder.
They have been scientifically proven to
reduce the need for hospitalisation by 60
percent, by holding children in position during a crash, which would
otherwise see a passenger being thrown into the instrument panel,
windscreen or other parts of a car.
With the figure being an estimated R307-billion each year, this is
the same if not marginally more than what Transnet has budgeted
“We are pleased to have played a role in making road trips safer,
especially for children,” added Lodder.
Quality Product Line-Up from Agricultural Industry
Specialists Bearings International
B
earings International will
and low operating costs.” Quality, which
showcase its extensive
goes hand in hand with reliable high
agricultural product line-up
performance and long life, is standard in
of bearings, tension devices, seals,
Bearings International products. Danie
motors, transmission products, as
adds that while price is an important
well as agricultural spares at Nampo,
consideration, it is not the only basis for
Bothaville, Free State, from 13th to16th
making a sound business decision. “That
May 2014. High productivity and
is why we add value to our products
low input costs are the mainstay for
across the entire supply chain; we
sustainable profitability on any farm.
support our quality products with service
“This means that a farmer cannot afford
excellence which includes on-time
downtime due to equipment failure,
product delivery and expert advice from
especially during the critical planting and
our specialist bearings and transmission
➲ Engineering solutions from agricultural industry
harvesting periods,” explains Bearings
engineers. Maintenance and repair, on
specialists - Bearings International
International Aftermarket director, Danie
time parts and stock availability, etc.
Louw. “The farmer thus demands from
forms part of our after sales service
his equipment uncompromising quality and reliability, optimum,
offering to ensure that farming equipment remains well maintained
efficient performance, an extended life span, minimum maintenance
and fully operational.”
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may 2014