Tritan Aero Car 2 - or how the pizza gets to the customer faster
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Less than three liters of fuel per 100 km and a top speed of over 100 km/h were impressive characteristics for a car over 35 years ago, even if it only had three wheels. The Tritan Aero Car was so interesting for Domino's Pizza that ten prototypes were ordered to deliver pizzas. The final breakthrough was not achieved, but the Tritan A2 is still a highly interesting vehicle today. This report describes the brief history of the Tritan Aero Car and shows it in historical and current photo material.
This article contains the following chapters
- Pizza at home in 30 minutes
- The tricycle from Tritan
- Domino's Tritan
- Road-bound airplane
- No success
- Plan not abandoned
- A good handful of survivors
Estimated reading time: 4min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Young, fresh and dynamic entrepreneurs want to reinvent the world and generate market advantages through innovation. This is the case today when mobility service providers such as Uber or Lyft are researching the autonomous cab, but it was also the case in the past when the Domino's pizza chain had an efficient and affordable delivery vehicle on three wheels built for itself over 35 years ago. After all, even back then, every minute saved when delivering a pizza paid off not only in terms of money saved but also in terms of quality for the customer. Domino's Pizza can be traced back to April 23, 1963, when brothers Tom and James Monaghan took over a small pizza restaurant in Ypsilanti (Michigan). James soon left, but Tom bought more pizzerias, so that by 1965 he owned three restaurants and also delivered pizza to people's homes. An employee suggested the name "Domino's Pizza" and Tom was so taken with the idea that he renamed the company accordingly in 1965.
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