Pass Along The Car Please! is a short British film from the Proler Cohen company (likely from the 1970s), that presents the Proler process for recycling old cars. The film begins with shots of scrap yards full of old cars, and the narrator discusses the problem of scrapping over half a million cars each year that faces Great Britain. Old cars are abandoned everywhere, cluttering roads and polluting the countryside, partially because it is no longer financially worthwhile for scrappers to buy old vehicles. The answer to his problem is Proler. A Proler factory (02:05), where the Proler process of scrapping old cars efficiently is carried out, removes old cars from the community and puts steel back into the steel industry. A Proler plant can reduce a car into pieces of steel in just fifteen seconds. The process has been perfected by the Proler Steel Corporation in the U.S. The Proler process is an automatic process (04:00), where a crane places cars onto a conveyer belt, which moves the cars into a disintegrator (04:50) where the cars are reduced to small pieces of steel, separated from any waste, and compacted into fist-size pieces (05:28) for easy transportation. It takes only a matter of minutes from the time the car is placed on the conveyer belt to when it is turned into high-quality Proler steel. The whole operation is dust free due to a high-efficiency dust collection system (06:08), protecting the surrounding community. The Proler process is so effective that Proler will pay for scrap cars. Special trains provided by British Rail (06:55) will transport Proler steel to steel works facilities. Other forms of light scrap can also be treated by the Proler factory and turned into high quality dense scrap. This means more money for scrappers and less scrap on the streets and in the fields—“everyone will profit with Proler.”
Born in 1917, Sam Proler was the man behind the Proler process. In the mid-1950s, Sam Proler and his family’s scrap company, Proler Steel Corp., had a problem: They possessed some 40,000 tons of No. 2 auto bundles but were seeing an absence of interest from steel mills in their product due to the number of contaminants in the bales. Proler managed to persuade a company that made hammermill-style crusher (generally used in mining operations) to fabricate an automobile shredder. The Proler automobile shredding process received a U.S. patent in 1960 and revolutionized the recycling industry. Read more at: http://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/man-of-action/
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