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Paul
Goatley
is an automotive
engineer in a small New Zealand rural community. His passion for
motorsport together with a lack of financial resources inspired him
to make a quick shifting, clutchless, sequential gearbox for his
amateur Rallycar. By utilizing simple engineering principals he was
familiar with and systematically overcoming tooling and materials
problems, he created a gearbox that astonishingly, worked well.
Friends,
who realized his achievements had significant application in
mainstream automotive construction, funded an ongoing R&D and patent
program. This gained the attention of independent technology
evaluators who confirmed Paul’s innovation was worthy of
presentation to the international automotive community
Goatley Technology
Developments Limited
is a small, specialist technology
company formed to fund and guide the development of an AMT gearbox
that was suggested by an independent international transmission
consultant as having significant merit.
Its New Zealand location has
provided some very important advantages …
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The
inventor was not constrained by existing technology and able to
develop a transmission solution that was simple and inexpensive.
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The development costs through the
early stages in a small rural New Zealand town were affordable
for the early investors to achieve significant progress.
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As a
result of relative isolation, the people of New Zealand have a
heritage of finding innovative solutions to technical issues.
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