1) Ferdinand Rodricks has been modifying cars for over 20 years to enable people with disabilities to drive. His latest project was modifying a Maruti Eeco for 63-year-old Pratap Singh, whose right leg is affected by polio, so he can operate the brake and accelerator with his left hand.
2) Rodricks drilled holes in aluminum tubes to create levers for the brake and accelerator that would attach to a handlebar for Singh to operate with his left hand.
3) One lever is attached to the brake and the other to the accelerator. Both levers are fitted into a single handlebar that allows Singh to control the car without using his right leg.
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Personal and Spiritual education. The ambition is to grow resourceful, thinking
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that enables a transformation based on the SIPS Framework - Social, Intellectual,
Personal and Spiritual education. The ambition is to grow resourceful, thinking
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A day at Ferdinand Rodricks’workshop
1. 10 the guide AUTO MAY 29, 2011. SUNDAY MiD DAY
A day at Ferdinand
Rodricks’workshop
A passion for tinkering with cars led a young mechanical engineer to come up
with an invention that would change the lives of over 1,000 differently-abled
drivers. That was 20 years ago, and Ferdinand Rodricks hasn’t stopped since
YOSHITA SENGUPTA said, “owning a car itself was a 1] Rodricks’ latest
yoshita.sengupta@mid-day.com big deal. So modifying it — tin- assignment was to modify
kering was unheard of.” the Maruti Eeco of 63 year-
SITTING in his air-conditioned “When I worked on my old Chembur resident
office, 50 year-old Ferdinand friend’s car, people thought I
Rodricks seems like any other was not in my senses,” he recol- Pratap Singh, whose right
CEO at the helm of a well-estab- lects. leg is polio-affected. The
lished automotive services firm. Over time however, word first thing he needed to do
But if you look around his spread and people with various was make a lever that would
Dadar office carefully, you will disabilities approached him. be attached to the brake and
find a wheelchair in one corner “Everyone had a different kind another to the accelerator.
and framed photographs of of disability, and unique specifi- Here, Rodricks bends an
smiling people, standing next cations. Someone wanted a aluminum tube to make a
to assorted car parts, hanging wheelchair fit in the car; others lever.
on a wall nearby. All of them, wanted their seats to rotate.”
differently-abled. It’s tough not to forge a
Rodricks began experiment- bond with every client, 2] Rodricks drills a hole into
ing with automobile parts from Rodricks smiled. “You need to the tube, which will be
a young age. While studying understand their problem and attached to the brake and
Mechanical Engineering in customise the car according to accelerator that are on the
1982, he modified a Fiat their needs. Sometimes, solu- driver’s right hand side.
Padmini owned by a friend tions aren’t easy to come by Pratap has a right-sided
afflicted with polio, making it and require continuous brain- disability and Rodricks is
possible for him to drive the car storming.” modifying the car to enable
without using his feet. “I want- Comfort and dignity, adds
ed to modify my friend’s Fiat in Rodricks, matter the most. “I him to operate the brake
a way that he could drive it ask the disabled person to be and accelerator without
comfortably, using just his selfish, not think about what using his right leg.
hands,” Rodricks says. others in the family want or 3] One lever is attached to the concerned. Initially the RTOs
Two years later, after obtain- how the car looks. His com- would allow modified cars,
ing his degree, Rodricks fort is of utmost importance. brake, and another to the since they were for disabled
opened an automobile work- There have been cases where accelerator. Both levers are then people. Later, they became
shop in the backyard of his a car bought especially for a fitted into a handlebar that strict and said that cars need to
Malad bungalow and began disabled person has been Pratap can operate with his left be either produced by a manu-
modifying cars for differently- modified to fit 10 other peo- hand. facturer or modified by an
abled persons. ple, making it uncomfortable 4] The height of the levers and approved person.”
In 1999, Rodricks opened a for the disabled driver. I do the handlebar depend on the Since modifications were
service centre for Mahindra & not encourage this,” he height of the car and the driver. specific and would change
Mahindra Ltd. in Dadar. He asserts. They need to be made with depending on individual
continued to modify cars for the One of Rodricks’ latest proj- requirements, his team drew
disabled from a 400 sq feet ects is a car for a 63 year-old exactitude — the handlebar must out certain basic parameters for
workshop located at the back of retired businessman whose not touch the dashboard when ARAI, on which modifications
his service centre. right leg is polio-affected. pushed, or come too close to the of cars were approved.
But it wasn’t easy. Rodricks Rodricks attached levers to steering wheel, when pulled. But that’s not where the
faced cynicism. “Back then,” he the brake and accelerator of PICS/PRATHIK PANCHAMIA story ends for a disabled person
— to drive a modified car, they
still need a special licence,
which can be procured only
after a lengthy process of
obtaining a certificate of dis-
ability from All India Institute
of Physical Medicine And
Chembur resident Pratap position where they are com- Rehabilitation (AIIPMR), an
Singh’s Maruti Eeco. Both fortable and relaxed is very RTO inspection, the Transport
levers are attached to a handle- important. They become edgy if Commissioner’s approval, a
bar which when pushed they are even slightly uncom- nod from the departments in
forward towards the wind- fortable,” he shares. Delhi... Rodricks trails off.
shield, makes the car brake, Rodricks insists on meeting The process is supposed to
and when pulled, makes it the children to understand take a month but it ends up tak-
accelerate. Singh can now drive their requirements, which ing longer. “Sometimes, the
his car without using his right include tiny details like the disabled are genuinely
leg. height of the seat, and whether harassed. They cannot use pub-
For people with a disability an additional belt would be lic transport, they have to take a
in their left leg, Rodricks modi- necessary. cab.. it’s all expensive and trou-
fies the gear stick — with the Only last year, Rodricks blesome. Such cases need to be
press of a button on the stick, received a nod from the handled in a more sensitive
the clutch is automatically Automotive Research manner.”
pushed down. Association of India (ARAI), a Perhaps, similar to the way
Rodricks has also received co-operative industrial research in which Rodricks handles his
several calls from parents of association, that makes his cases — the aim being to
children with cerebral palsy, to modifications ‘legal’. achieve mobility with dignity.
design special car seats. “Till recently there was no
“Getting them to sit in a system as far as approvals were