("A pound was the recognized tariff for the Foot Guards then," he wrote. "The Horse Guards cost rather more").
Manac, the manufacturer of the only trailer that prevented underride in the most severe 30 percent overlap test, estimates that its underride guards cost $20 more than guards on other trailers, Mr. Zuby said.
It could take the Department of Corrections until 2009 to resolve a chronic shortage of prison guards, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in overtime, the state auditor has found.
City-recommended tree guards cost about $1,000, depending on their style and size of the tree pit, but an improvised $20 fence can work just as well, said the study's lead author Robert Elliott, a recent graduate of Columbia Engineering and cofounder of Urban Leaf, a New York City startup helping city dwellers grow food at home.
Surprisingly, the architectural successes are not gargantuas like Ford and General Motors both of which are overstyled commercial packages of closely guarded costs, estimated at $25 million to $50 million each for building and contents.
The four are among the first 29 prisoners to be granted medical parole under a 2010 California law intended to save the state tens of millions of dollars in medical and guarding costs for permanently, medically incapacitated prisoners.
Each guard costs about $60 an hour.
Unveiled in May, the Guard costs less than 35 cents.
That figure, however, does not include the massive and jealously guarded cost of providing security to the major royals, including the 84-year-old queen and her 89-year-old husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Met guards the cost of its premieres, but generally they are in the seven figures.
