. Automotive industries . future, is,nevertheless, some day going to find its way on the mar-ket as a practical product. In addition to these activi-ties which have to do with future products, there is alsoa great amount of routine work at the laboratory havingto do with current problems in the General Motors plant. The research corporation is fortunate in having atits head C. F. Kettering, whose personal research workhas made him sufficiently acquainted with the differentlines of activities going on at the laboratory to have anintimate and detailed knowledge of practically all thework under w
. Automotive industries . future, is,nevertheless, some day going to find its way on the mar-ket as a practical product. In addition to these activi-ties which have to do with future products, there is alsoa great amount of routine work at the laboratory havingto do with current problems in the General Motors plant. The research corporation is fortunate in having atits head C. F. Kettering, whose personal research workhas made him sufficiently acquainted with the differentlines of activities going on at the laboratory to have anintimate and detailed knowledge of practically all thework under way. In order to allow the division headswho are in the actual research work to be absolutelyfree to devote all of their energies to the research partof the business, the control division is entirely separateand handles the business, accounting and personnel ofthe laboratory. In the direct research department thereare eleven principal divisions: these include mechanicalengineering, fuel, chemical and metallurgical control,. Exterior of the laboratory building of the General Motors Research Corporation at Moraine City, Ohio, which is just outside of Dayton April 88, 1921 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES THE AUTOMOBILE 901 which has to do with current manufacturing processes,and chemical and metallurgical research, which has todo with future methods. There are also included divi-sions for electrical engineering, dynamics, refrigeration,farm engineering, experimental production, which hasto do with reducing design to production, by means ofmodel-building, etc.; semi-works engineering, which hasto do with the development of manufacturing methods,such as special machines and tools, and instrumentation,which includes experimental and development work onmatters requiring accurate dimensions, such as speedom-eter designs, etc. These activities are carried on in forty-four labora-tory rooms, and in addition there are machine shops insome of the laboratory departments where they are nec-essary to ca
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