Rosebank and MHL corruption

[Bruce dreaming]

Rosebank and MHL corruption

Spotted this in a blog, does anyone know if “Rosebank” as a helmet maker was lobbying for this stupid MHL.

Anyone have some historic information about this?

 

http://www.rosebank.com.au/about-us/

 

 

For it was the Rosebank Stackhat that led to the adoption of the Australian bicycle helmet standard AS/NZS 2063 which is most stringent standard in the world.

‘Don’t forget your Stackhat’ being yelled from many a household as kids found their freedom through cycling.

It wasn’t long after batch one rolled off the production line in 1982 that bike and department stores across the country were a flurry of bright orange durable helmets.

 

[Nicholas Dow]

Rosebank took out 1/2 page ads in local newspapers in the late '80s onwards calling for helmet law to be introduced.

[Peter]

I always suspected this. A local used to work there and told me something of the history. John Rose bought the moulds from CIG where is was being developed as a generic sports/industrial helmet for some exorbitant figure, 100k+, and obviously wanted to get his money out of the investment. Why CIG had not gone ahead with the helmet in the first place might just be due to the unattractiveness of the whole thing to begin with. How sad our cyclists were so not organised to prevent being lumbered with it by law. Plus the idea of making the shell the same size and increasing the foam thickness for smaller head sizes its any wonder kids gave up riding. The solidness of the whole thing probably contributed to our helmet standards being so stringent. Easy to believe Rosebank had tried to keep competition out by encouraging tougher standards. But remember, quite implicitly, it was not designed as a bike helmet!