control circuit was created that could switch between the two motors. The final part was a joystick that allowed the initial position to be set on the body for the scan. It was the only automatic scanner built due to funding problems and the complex nature of the machine, with regular maintenance needed to keep the valve electronics functional. In December 1959, Donald met with Slater at the Kelvin Hughes factory, who expressed a desire to withdraw due to the increasing and unmanageable costs; the original £500 allocated to the project had stretched into thousands of pounds and the company could no longer afford it. The running costs for the project were being met by the Scottish Endowments Hospital Trust, but did not provide funding capital expenditure. Donald consulted with Hetherington, who produced £750 as a temporary measure while other funds were sought. Donald then approached the Scottish Hospital Endowments Research Trust and the Department of Health for Scotland. Slater and Donald attended a lunch party with the trust, who provided a grant of £4,000. The Trust sought assistance from the National Research Development Corporation in London, who provided them an immediate grant of £4,000 that was later supplemented with additional funding, up to £10,000 over several years. The financial security was to last until 1965. For much of this period, Donald used his position as Regius Professor and his personal charisma to sell the potential of the ultrasound machine. In 1959, Swedish obstetrician Bertil Sundén of Lund University, Sweden, visited Glasgow to find a subject for his MD thesis. Glasgow University had established links with Lund University since John Martin Munro Kerr's time. Lars Leksell of Lund had been experimenting with ultrasound since the 1950s, and had been using a Kelvin and Hughes supersonic detector for experimentation. Leksell's work was well known to obstetrics and gynaecology professor Alf Sjövall, who was friends with Donald and knew his work; as such, Sjövall sent Sundén to Glasgow. During the visit, Sundén wanted to reproduce Donald's work from scratch. Despite the fact that the automatic scanner was almost completed, Sundén wanted an exact copy of the machine which Donald had used to produce his first publications: a bed-table scanner. The result was an order for a new ultrasound machine costing £2,500. It was the first direct-contact scanning machine built in the world, and was a hybrid between the manually operated bed-table machine