The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-21
PURDUE UNIVERSITY is
GREAT TECHNICAL SHOP
Mechanical Equipment of Institution is
at Command of the American Sur
vey of Motor Car Units.

at Command of the American Sur
vey of Motor Car Units.
George AIDE. than whom Purdue Uni
versity never had n more loyal stude nj
used TO tell his frat" brothers dowI
at Lafayette. Ind. that some day tn,
engin eerins schools OF Purdue would
tatns OF industry would put their ear:
TO the ground to hear what tho engi
neering oracles at Lafayette had &c
Say.
Tho Hoosicr humorist and playwright
has found his prophcsy has mate
rallied. Tho mechanical equipment at
the command OF tho board of technical
detail of the American Efficiency Sur
vey OF Motor Car Units, which prac-
tically Is monopolizing all tho time of
the heads OF tho engineering labora-
tories at Purdue In the comprehensive
testing and proving of the units which
go to make an automobile Is the mos t
extensive and the most varied of any
single institution of its kind In tho
world.
SO great has become tho demand
upon the engineers. who also are the
experts selected by the Master Car
Builders Association OF America by
the American Efficiency Survey of Mo-
tor Car Units that tho latter has been
compelled TO expend largo sums in
Installing additional equipment for
the purdue laboratories
c. II. benjamin. D. Eng. dean OF
the engineering schools mt Purdue
Louis Z. Endsley. NJ. E., professor OF
railway mechanical cngincering-in
charge Of III" Master Car Builders AS
ISOLATION tests; NJ. j. Golden, NJ e.
director OF the mechanical engineering
laboratories: Robert C. Pilkington, NJ
r.. resident engineer. who has had
Ncars OF experience in the largest con-
Germs In the motor car industry, and
{. Francis Harding. b. S. Il. T., are tho
executives who direct some Of the most
eNacting and strenuous tests OF motor
parts. tires, oils. etc, the engineering
world ever has known.
As tribute TO the thorouchness
ana sincerity of the experts mt Purdue
In undertaking to ascertain for the
american efficiency survey OF motor
car units corporation which has its
Headquarters In Chicago President
i'hrTN Newman says: These engineer
Ing experts at Purdue accept one or
dcr-the request to make their tests
the most comprehensive that lahora-
tory apparatus. sSill, science and an
pNcation can make them. BEYOND that
we are silent. They will demand nc
'u'"cE down 10 the smallest dimcn-
sion measurable by scientiflc.. anna
Tatus: certainty to the maximum OF
hHnian calculation. and they take their
Lime 10 achieve results
II Is our purpose to have tho sew
ehtS-odd units of Importance in the
'lst or motor car construction parts
put through these scientific Iabora
tories TO get what we think IS the
greatest hallmark that scientific men
coulu give ana to make known to the
world tho findings OF the reliable mon
or tho best equipped laboratories IN
me world. Already the board OF en-
Eineers has made It's findings on ono
important adjunct of the MOTOR ina,,s
Try. and they are conducting the most
exhaustive tests Imaginable in ono,her
phase.
Honesty and truth. slammed with
the Purdue University laboratory hall
mark Will be sufficient guaranfoc fnr
tho American efficiency survey or mo.
Tor car units: II VIII be accented vii,
ms verdict OF the scientific men. hy
the matters of the motor car units ne
bhdse of honor among tho cantain.
OF INDUSTRY. There VIII be weight he
hiho The report OF this survey md no
expectation of the manufacturers ,vho
pass highest in this rigid test viii
nc the subsequent pleasure Of the Of
Hciais OF the survey
IA my opinion this ia tho greatest
step mat has been made to estebllsh
ihdcpendent, disinterested stand.rds
n the automobile Industry which e.,
point OF capital invested Is second en-
thls country. being surpassed only nv
INC steel Industry"