. Automotive industries . Testing Packard Engine rooms where final Packard Motor Car Co. and cannot in any way be heldto factory or shop requirements. Thus, the final check-over of the car is independent of anything which mayhave been done as a plant operation. Roughening Aluminum Body Panels ALUMINUM sheet, as it comes from the mill, is ex-ceedingly smooth and its surface does not hold paintwell. It is therefore roughened by mechanical means. before the first coat of paint is applied to the body. The attached cut shows a Haskins Type H-7 equip-ment in use in the automobile body building indus
. Automotive industries . Testing Packard Engine rooms where final Packard Motor Car Co. and cannot in any way be heldto factory or shop requirements. Thus, the final check-over of the car is independent of anything which mayhave been done as a plant operation. Roughening Aluminum Body Panels ALUMINUM sheet, as it comes from the mill, is ex-ceedingly smooth and its surface does not hold paintwell. It is therefore roughened by mechanical means. before the first coat of paint is applied to the body. The attached cut shows a Haskins Type H-7 equip-ment in use in the automobile body building machines are used with a stiff wire scratchbrush. The equipment consists of a 1 hp. motor, a three-speed counter shaft (giving spindle speeds of 900, 1800and 3600 ) and 6 ft. of Haskins flexible shafting. Motor Car Fuel Economy Trial THE Royal Automobile Club of England has an-nounced its intention of holding a national fuel econ-omy trial on Saturday, -May 7 next. The object of thetrial is to demonstrate the possibility of obtaininggreater fuel economy in the use of a car than is at pres-ent generally the case, and it is pointed out that greatereconomy can be obtained by various methods, such as(a) a more economical adjustment of the carbureter,with very Blight depreciation of the cars performance;Id greater skill in driving, and (c) the fitting of aux-iliary devices, such as extra air valves, the last-namedmethod, of
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