Arizona republican., 1921-02-20
1. A.SPEEDWAY RESERVED FOR
 MOTOR TESTS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 19.-(SpeciaD Los Angeles is soon to receive new honors in the automotive industry and is due to become a center exceeding in importance Indianapolis and New York, according to Fred J. Wagner, representative of the American Auto motive association.
 Tests which previously were impos- sible except at the speedway in Indian apolis and at the Sheepshead Bay course in New York can now be handled to much better advantage on the mile-and- "a quarter oval atfBeverly and already a number of applications have been sent in by eastern manufac- turing concerns requesting reserva- tions for the use of the local plant. the first probably within the next few weeks, according to Wagner.
 For the past ten years practically all the important endurance and speed tests which have enabled automotive engineers to make such rapid progress in the development of the automobile have been made at either Indianapolis or Sheepshead Bay" said Wagner to- day.
 investigations into the relative values of various steel alloys used in the manufacture of motor cars, fuel tests, the question of bolt and nut sizes as finally adopted by the Society | of Automotive Engineers, car weights ]
 from one mile to several thousands, and hour tests running as high as 1 continuous operation for seventy two 1 hours have had an important influence on automotive engineerig advance 1 The new Los Angeles Speedway, i however, has proven much faster than
 any other track in the world. Speeds never before believed possible with i cars equipped with the present small motor, smaller in fact than that of the Ford, have been attained here and l there is no question in my mind but that they will all have to come here 1 for their records.
 State laws have rightly placed a 1 curb upon speeding on the public high
 ways and yet these trials are neces- l sary to engineering progress. Yor l have here an institution that will have i an enormous influence in bringing te
 your city eastern manufacturers O motor ears. trucks and accessories Some of them already have erected plants here because of the climate
 which permits working on every day 1T
 the year, without the expense of heat.
 ing and the difficulties of transporta
 tion met with at such manufacturing
 centers as Detroit, Pittsburg, Indian.
 apolis, Toledo and Cleveland.
 While the American Automobile as sociation has IS its objects the genera
 Detternent of the motor car and trucl
 industry and the promotion of goo,
 roads, its contest board has come L
 be recognized as the supreme authorit- on auto racing and testing and durinj
 the past ten or twelve years I hay , officiated as starter, or timer at hun
 dreds of these trials. The greate ! majority have not been public race. l but private tests conducted solely fo
 the benefit of the manufacturer Records made during these tests hay been recognized by the automobiI governing bodies throughout the worl ; and our electric timing device. whic was instrumental in designing an
 of which there are not more than thre or four sets in the world, is the las word in accuracy, checking time fror ] start to finish without variation of l hundredth of a second.
 Tn the early days of automobil
 racing the event was more or less i 1 the nature of a spectacle for the bene fit of the public. Today there remain : something of the same element i automobile racing, but every race i l attended by factory experts and en
 gineers from all over the United State. I and sometimes from overseas as vel 3 They study the design of the car, ? their condition after the race and thei performance and from what they lear : at the track they can study design ( motor and chassis more intelligent
 in their own factory laboratories, an the motoring public benefits a year c ; two later through important improve e mentS in design