Cobbitty. Lu Papi wins awards

Luciano Papi, the director of Lu Papi and Associates, a small engineering firm at Cobbitty, was winner of Welfare, Health and Safety; Innovations and Inventions and President’s Award, for the Freedom Wheelchair, which took three years to develop and is now patented worldwide. Mr Papi worked closely in the design process with the Ryde Rehabilitation Hospital, biomedical engineers, a Paralympian, as well as paraplegics and quadriplegics.