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

al Command of the American SUR
vey of Motor Chr Units.
George AIDE, than whom Purdue Uni
versity never had n moro loyal studc Mt
used 20 tell his frat" brothers dowY
at Lafayette. Ind. that some day tho
engineering schools OF Purdue would
become SO great technically that cap.
tains OF industry would put their ears
10 tho ground TO hear what the enEi.
neering oracles at Lafayette had &c
ray.
The Hoosier humorist and playwright,
has found his prophecy has mate
rialized 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 Mt Purdue In the comprehensive
testing and proving of the units which
go to make an automobile, Is the most
extensive and the most varied of any
single institution OF It's kind In the
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 the latter has been
compelled to expcnd largo sums in
Installing additional equipment for
the Purdue laboratories.
G. II. benjamin. D. Eng. dean OF
the engineering schools Mt Purdue
Louis L. Endsley. NJ F., professor of
railway mechanical cngineering-in
charge OF the Master Car Builders AS
ISOLATION tests; NJ. j. Golden, NJ E.
director Of the mechanical engineering
laboratories; Robert G. Pilkington, NJ
h., resident engineer. who has had
wears OF experience In the largest con-
Germs In the motor car industry and
c Francis Harding. b. s. Il. e. are the
executives who direct some OF tho most
eNacting and strenuous tests of motor
parts. tires. oils etc. the engineering
world ever has known.
AS tribute to the thorouchness
and sincerity OF the experts at purdue
IN Undertaking to ascertain for the
American efficiency survey of motor
car units corporation which has Its
headGuarters In Chicago, President
harrY Newman says: These engineer
Ing experts at Purdue accent one or
dcr-the request to make their tests
The most comprehensive that lahora
tory apparatus. skill science and an
plication can make them. Reyond that
we arc silent. They will demand ac-
curacy down to the smallest dimcn-
sion measurable by scientific appn
ratus: certainty to the maximum. of
human calculation. and they take their
time TO achieve results
IL is our purpose TO have the sew
chty-ood units OF Importance I'm the
nst or motor car construction parts
put through these scientific labora
tories. TO get what we think IL tho
greatest hallmark that scientific men
could give. and to make known 20 the
world tho findings of the reliable men
or tho best equipped Laboratories I'm
me world. Already the board OF en-
Sincers has made It's findings on ono
important adjunct of the motor tndus
Try, and they are conducting the most
exhaustive tests imaginable in another
phase.
Honesty and truth, slammed with
the Purdue University laboratory hall
mark VIII be sufficient guarantee for
Tho American efficiency survey OF mo-
tor car units: II Will be accepted viii
ms verdict of the scientific men IN,
inc matters of the motor car units. ne
oanse OF honor among tho captains
on industry. There Will be weigh, he
hlhU INC report OF THIS survey and the
.NiIortation of the manufacturers who
pass highest in this rigid test VIII
he tho subsequent pleasure of Tho of
Metals OF the survey
IN my opinion this ia tho c-,.o+,s.
step that has been made to estohiish
independent, disintcrested standnrds
n the automobile Industry which. ~,
point OF capital invested IS second In
ms country, being surpassed only hv
:he steel Industry"