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Measures Fatigue. CAR COMFORT TESTS.

In attempting to measure the amount of fatigue that motoring causes to drivers, the American Society of Automotive Engineers has used the human body as a sort of "measuring stick."

Using various types of springs, shock-absorbers, and other com- fortgiving components, various experiments were carried out, and the occupants of the cars were later put through tests which de termined the amount of fatigue they suffered.

NOVEL THREE-WHEELED

MONOPLANE.

George G. Fernic, inset, and his noveļ airplane,"

SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1930.

MILLIONS FOR ROADS.

BIG ROAD PLAN.

The US Bureau of Public Colorado's highway department Roads reports that state aud budget, calling for the expenditure local authorities all over the of more than $6,000,000 for con- country plan to spend more than struction and maintenance of $1,601,167,000. for highway im- roads during 1990, has been provement in 1930. This is $250,- approved. In addition, $3,500,000 000,000 more than was spent in left from last year's budget will 1929.

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Physical fatiguo is arrived at by ascertaining the amount of chemical change which has taken place in the blood during a given period. Nervous fatigue is men- sured on a "wobblemeter," which New York, April 5th.-Originally to finish the plane till late in Sep- the conventional two-wheel type, records the body sway or steadiness, built for a trans-Atlantic flight, tember, when it was successfully according to Fernic and the theory being that steadiness the Fernic monoplane, which em-test flown at Roosvelt Field, Fernic aeronautic engineers. It enables decreases as fatigue increases. Brbodies a radical departure in de abandoned the idea of a trans-At- the plane to be in flying position the results of these tests the rela-sign from the average airplane, Iantle trip and since has concen- while on the ground, thereby re- tive comfort of the parts under will be displayed for the first time trated his efforts in developing (ducing the distance needed in tést is found,

at the New York Air Show spon- the plane for commercial use. which to take off. The location of The experiments wore conducted sored by the Aeronautical Cham- Features on the Fernic plane (the front wheel at the nose of the by the Department of Psychologyber of Commerce at Madison are a small auxiliary wing some plane permita powerful application of the George Washington Univer- Square Garden, May 3 to 10. distance ahead of the main wing of the brakes on the rear wheels sity under the direction of the

The unique plane is the result of and a three wheel landing gear. without danger of nosing the plane Society, but it is only recently that years of work by George G. Fernic, The auxiliary wing, mounted on jover. the results achieved have been con-

who came to his country from Ru- the fore of the fuselage, in tandëm Fernic at present is engaged in sidered worthy of further study.

mania in 1927. Fernic has design-with the main wing, by stalling the construction of a two-passen ed several types of commercial and earlier than the latter, operates (ger, side-side, dual control, open military, planes now, used in En-automatically at high. angles cockpit plane of similar design and against involuntary stall of the powered by a 75 horsepower Rover His present plane was designed plane. It thereby minimizes the motor. The first plane is equipped and built at Arlington, Staten danger of tail spinning.

with two Wright Whirlwind motors Island, N. Y., last year in prepara- The three-wheel landing gear and has a top speed of 110 miles tion for an ocean flight. Unable (has ́ a number of advantages over an hour.

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SPEEDING OUTPUT. CARS & EDUCATION.

Chevrolet Increases Assembly Plant.

900 CARS DAILY.

Ford's Activities. £20,000,000 FOR SCHOOLS.

Besides holding the strongest views on prohibition, Henry Ford has decided ideas on education. According to him everyone should learn a trade so as to have some thing to keep the hands and brain

The Chevrolet Motor Company. division of General Motors, has completed an expansion of its pro- duction capacity with the recent opening of the rebuilt and en-active. larged assembly and export plant I believe there should be a at Tarrytown, New York.

USEFUL HINTS.

That "Wheel Drag."

[By Israel. Klein.]

"Sometimes there is a peculiar | "feel" behind the steering wheel that seems to warn the driver of something gone wrong.

The motor may be humming ulong in tip-top shape. Yet there technical school in every indus- it is, a sort of drag on the whole i The new Tarrytown plant has a trial organisation," he said recent car, a feeling that the engine is capacity of 900 cars dally and is ly. Ford proposes to spend about pulling harder than usual. one of the nine assembly plants £20,000,000 in founding a series of and one of the two export plants | self-supporting schools where ac- maintained by Chevrolet in thejademic subjects will be taught in United States.

the lower. grade. Later, as Completion of this plant places will be given vocational training.

students are prepared for it, they Chevrolet in a more advantageous; position to meet rapidly expand-sembly lines and an export boxing ing sales requirements for its pro-line. The export division of the duct along the Atlantic seaboard.

In addition, the move was made Tarrytown plant serves many

The steering, too, seems more difficult, and the wheel must be gripped, tight to keep the car from this is a sign of an underinflated, swerving out of control. Usually

times, even with front tyres in or fint, tyre in front. But some- good shape, this occurs. Then the cause may lie in the fact that the.

to thoroughly modernize the plant countries not in the territory of pitch or toe-in of the front wheels and bring it up to the high stan- Chevrolets are shipped direct from to make control of the car difficult. an overseas General Motors plant. may be out of adjustment, enough dard of equipment and efficiency Tarrytown to these foreign coun-

Perhaps even the caster, or that characterizes Chevrolet plants tries fully assembled. The other slant, of the front axle may be off in other sections of the country.

The new plant is a one storey, fed, New Jersey, ships only knock- be shimmying as a result.

Chevrolet export plant at Bloom-a degree or so, and the wheels may brick and steel structure, 1,200 by ed down parts for assembly at 400 feet, with monitor type roof; General Motors plants oversens. providing for maximum light and The finished Chevrolet cars 25- ventilation. Adjoining it is a new sembled and boxed at Tarrytown two storey office building, 200 by are put on barges and floated down 60 feet, of concrete and brick con-to New York City, where they are put aboard ships for various paris The plant has two domestic as-of the world.

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Tyres, for easiest driving, should be kept inflated at the pressures designated by the car's manufac turer. Balloon tyres usually take a pressure of about 35 pounds.

Too much pressure will susceptibility to hard knocks from irregularities in the road, and so make riding uncomfortable. little pressure.makes riding easier, but causes difficult steering and] renders the tyres open to greater wear and tear.

Too

The front wheels have to fulfill three important requirements in order to make driving easy and rid ing comfortable.

First, they must have a definite pitch or inward slope, so that the bottoms are from one to three in- chee closer together than the tops. Second, they must "toe in," or slant inwards horizontally as well as vertically, so that their forward edges are closer together than the

rear,

Finally, the axle has to have a definite tilt, or caster, which pre- vents shimraying, or wandering, of the wheels.

If the pitch or toc-in of the front wheels of a car are off just an inch, the tyres will drag a mile Bideways in every 16 miles the car goes forward, engineers have estimated..

That's what causes not only un due wear on the tyres, but that un- comfortable "feel" at the wheel, the kind that makes you think a heavy wight is dragging along behind. Steering, too, is much more difficult.

Unequal pressure by four-wheel; brakes, or a sudden hard twist in turning a corner may upset the balance of the front wheels. A slight shock, a bump against the curb, or over a rat, may be other causes for such trouble.

The bushing, pins or hearings in the wheels and steering system may be worn, so as to cause the wheels to wobble, or the steering to be uneven...

The remedy lies mostly In pre- vention-in keeping the entire ateering system tightened up, and in getting a monthly check on the pitch and toe-in of the wheels, and the caster of the front axle:

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