MT Awards 2019 winner: Innovation Award – sponsored by Goodyear

November 21, 2019 Sponsored Support

Brigade marketing manager Emily Hardy (centre) and marketing executive Zoe Page (second left) collect the trophy from David Howe, commercial sales general manager at sponsor Goodyear Dunlop Tyres, flanked by comedian Omid Djalili (far left) and MT editor Steve Hobson (far right)
 

Brigade Electronics’ Quiet Vehicle Sounder was recognised as the innovation of the year at the Motor Transport Awards 2019 for being an elegantly simple solution to warning vulnerable road users of the approach of a quiet vehicle Brigade Electronics, the Kent firm that pioneered reversing alarms in the UK in 1976, picked up its first ever MT Award this year for its Quiet Vehicle Sounder (QVS), a device to warn blind and partially sighted people as well as other vulnerable […]




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