Over 1,000,000 uses in the 80's!

Between the October 24,1973 and December 5. 1974 the very first tests of EVZ summed up 40,270!

All the tests were organized and supervised by the 6 members of the EVZ company in 6 countries.

During 1975-76 the first equipments were disseminated to several ministries of France for testing and to the UTC-Otis organization in 20 cities.
International fair Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg, The Red Cross, le Salon de la Jeunesse, la Fête de l'huma, and similar operations in Spain will every year increase the amount of public uses of the EVZ to over 100,000 per annum between France, Spain and Belgium.
To make a ride in EVZ became the kids' major attraction with the Fire ladder to participate to the annual Fire Department's "Open Door" PR operation in many cities.

During the 80's Approximately 5000 units were installed and used one time per years for drills. A building installation can include between 1 up to 25 ZEC.
The director of the UTC-Otis chute department of Paris told Zephinie that the French Ministry of Interior has estimated the number of uses at 1,000,000 in 1987 in France.
The illegal marketing of the ZEC technology started in Asia stated in 1982 and actually one company claim having installed 3000 ZEC technology escape chutes. Hundreds of thousands uses has to be added from this source.
Zephinie doesn't get money from the ZEC business since 1988. That makes the little difference between regular and illegal use of Zephinie's technology worldwide .
The extraordinary national popularity of the ZEC in France during the 70’s.
Those historical information’s are added for the American's press information that actually had a hard time to believe the story of the Zephinie Escape chute is a reality. All reported facts can be formally testified by hundred of witnesses and press report archives in France.
The product itself involves a set of psychological characteristic that makes it universally appreciated by the population, including the sensation to use it.
 

The International fair of Paris (1974)

this even is an example of advertising sponsored operation and popular response to the ZEC:
Zephinie convinced the fair director to sponsor the shows giving 10,000 sq/ft of space near the entrance. The demo’s five stories structure, the mobile home, and the seven service men of the French Navy firefighters were also sponsoring participation of a value of $50,000 at the time.
During the rush hour, the multitude public watching over the demos was interfering with the flow of passage to the point that the next years the ZEC the Demo operation will be located at the far end of the park near the Freeway.
(The freeway traffic will be slowing down, and it was necessary to hide the view of the demos)
15,000 of the 800,000 visitors tested an evacuation system having officially forbidden to be tested by the firefighters by the General of the French firefighters during 1974!


A 12 years old kid has been quoted by the Navy men supervising the demonstrations for having used the EVZ 52 times in one day. The champion having climbed 260 stories and descending a total 6500 yard in the EVZ.
A blind person tested the EVZ carrying h dog in his harms.
A 80 years old lady wanted a ride to be the older lady in the new vertical Evacuation system. The EVZ teams were too busy to think to register the many records performed by the EVZ with Guinness.

The Minister of Sport came especially to make a televised testing of the EVZ, so did the next day another politician!

The EVZ demos have been performed in all major cities of France, Spain, Belgium and Holland.
 

Politicians having a love affair with the Television everywhere, Zephinie organized a standard procedure to interact the presence of local politicians testing the EVZ in TV cameras presence.  

The Vertical evacuation technology invented by Zephinie has been hundred of time reported by TV and in over a thousand times since 1973.

In a 3 years period la “Chaussette d’évacuation ”  became the most popular “French Invention” of the 70’s.

The TV, radio and press reports of all the international and national fair demonstration will spread the invention adding to the direct observation of the ZEC in rescues drills action by millions of fair visitors every year.

To see working the “Chaussette” that have seem “in the TV” as it is said in popular abused French language,  will give an extraordinary persistent memorization of the product for years to millions.  ZEC remains a powerful and positive image vector the sponsor.
The ZEC remains a unique product vector of positive image association with a great potential in the USA as so far exploited.  (Please contact for more information in this subject)    

Undoubtedly the EVZ development operation has been most successful and the first internationally "sponsored" operation of this kind in France during the 70’s.

 In 1977 a movie titled “The Chaussette en Folie” with the famous French actor Jean Richard  in the role of the Inventor of the Chaussette was released.  
Zephinie for very personal reason has not participated.

The  world famous Jean Bejart's  ballet asked Zephinie to adapt a EVZ to be used in a choreography.

 The French Government produced a movie for international promotion of French product using the “Chaussette EVZ” an exemplar of the French creativeness. (Commerce Exterior)

Other production for the French Universities will be run and many universities and Zephinie was asked to share his unusual experience of Inventor and promoter.

The Vertical evacuation course was officially added to curriculum of firefighter engineer course in 1977.  

 The nickname “Chaussette”

The word “Chaussette” was first used to answer to question “how does works the EVZ”.  The answer was: You feel like entering your harm into a long sock! “Chaussette” in French. The press people will nickname the EVZ la “Chaussette”. Later UTC-Otis tried to change this popular nickname.
The “la Chaussette Zephinie” became la “ La Chaussette d’Otis”  and official publication mention the word “Chaussette” however the French normal word is “Manche”   

 The Word “Manche and Chaussette d’évacuation” has been added since to the French Vocabulary.  

 The EVZ story include many anecdotes that will be eventually published soon in a book.

A General's stupid public declaration

The French TV canal2  archive keep the stupid public declaration of the General : That obviously works but it doesn’t exit for me! (Oct. 24-1973)
A funny illustration of the EVZ-ZEC odyssey will remains the picture of General Ferauge proudly presenting the UTC-Otis vertical Evacuation system to the president of the French