Back to the future… No matter how old the technology, there are always new and better ways to put that technology to work for mankind.

Annette Getty - PDS Quality Manager has been designated “Lady Driver” and will hopefully attempt a Ladies’ World Landspeed Record in late 2009. Annette has been instrumental in Project Managing the manufacture of many of the critical components for the steam car

PDS have been recently working closely with the designer from the British Steam Car Challenge Team to shape and build special steel tubing for the chassis of this exciting project. We began the process by cutting the square section T59 tubes into lengths and then machining them extremely accurately to create the piece parts required for assembling by welding together on the special Jig that we built in our factory in Nelson.

The car is designed to exceed 300 mph and will be the fastest ever vehicle to be powered by steam.

Follow the project at www.steamcar.co.uk

PDS technicians check the welded sections of the spaceframe in the PDS clean room assembly area in Lancashire