The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
MOTOR CAR ENGINEERS
ARE IN GREAT DEMAND
Purdue University Turning Out Ex-
perts. as George Ade Once
Predicted.
is ADDING TEN LABORATORIES

, George AIDE. than whom Purdue Uni
versity never had a more loyaly student.
used to tell his frat brothers down at
Lafayette. Ind. that some day the engi-
neering schools of Purdue would become
SO great technically that captains of in
dustry would put their ears TO the ground
to hear what the engineering oracles At
Lafayette had to say.
The Hoosier humorist and playwright
has found his prophesy has mateTialized.
The mechanical equipment at the com
mand Of the board OF technical detail Of
the American Efficiency Survey of Motor
Car Units, which practically Is monopo-
liking all the time Of the heads OF the
engineering laboratories at Purdue in the
comprehensive testing and proving Of the
units which go to make an automobile, 10
the most extensive and the most varied
OF any single institution Of its kind In the
world.
So great has been the demand upon the
engineers, who also are the experts Sc
lected by the MASTER Car Builders Asso-
ciation OF America by the American
Efficiency Survey of Motor Car Units.
that the latter has been compelled to ex-
pend large sums In installing additional
equipment for the Purdue laboratorieA
c. II. Benjamin. d. Eng, dean Of the
engineering schools at Purdue: Louis z.
Endsley. NJ. E. professor OF railway me
chanical engineering. in charge Of the
Master Car Builders Association tests;
NJ. J. Golden. NJ. E. director OF the me-
chanical engineering laboratories; Robert
C. PilkingtOn. NJ. E, resident engineer,
who has had years OF experience in the
largest concerns in the motor car in
dustry; and C. Francis Harding. B. s.
f. E, are the executives who direct some
of the most exacting and strenuous tests
OF motor parts, tires, oils. etc, the en-
gineering world ever has known.
As q tribute TO the thoroughness and
sincerity OF the experts at Purdue In
undertaking to ascertain for the Ameri-
can Efficiency Survey OF Motor Car Units
corporation, which has its headquarters
in Chicago. President Harry Newman
says: These engineering experts at Pur-
due accept one order-the request to
make their tests the most comprehensive
that laboratory apparatus, skill, science,
and application can make them. Beyond
that we are silent They will demand ac-
curacy down to the smallest dimension
measurable by scientific apparatus: GER
tainly to the maximum Of human calcu-
lation and they take their time to achieve
results.
1T is our purpose to have the seventy
odd units Of Importance in the list Of mo-
tor car construction parts put through
these scientific laboratories, to get what
We think is the greatest hallmark that
scientific men could give. and TO make
known TO the world the findings Of the
reliable men of the best equipped labora-
tories in the world. Already the board
Of engineers has made its findings on one
important adjunct OF the motor industry,
and they are conducting the most ex-
haustive tests imaginable in another
phase.
Honesty and truth. stamped with the
Purdue University laboratory hallmark
will be sufficient guarantee for the Amert-
can Efficiency Survey OF Motor Car Units;
II will be accepted. will this verdict Of
the scientific men, by the makers OF the
motor car units. as a badge Of honor
among the captains Of industry There
will be weight behind the report Of this
survey and the exploitation OF the manu-
facturers who pass highest in this rigid
test will be the subsequent pleasure OF
the officials Of the survey.
I'm my opinion. this is the greatest
step that has been made to establish in
dependent, disinterested standards in the
automobile industry which, in point Of
capital invested, is second in this coun-
try. being surpassed only by the steel
industry"