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Eight The Flint Journal, Flint, Michigan Sunday, November 8, 1964 Chevrolet Uses Lab Railroad Car To Help Solve Shipping Problems By the time Chevrolet production of its 1965 vehicles, it of them already had "shipped" some thousands of miles in its laboratory railroad car in Detroit. The laboratory rail car actually a huge cage simulating a compartment in a multilevel railroad car is used to determine the best way to tie down autos and trucks for shipping. With vibrating machinery beneath the six-ton car, test can duplicate nearly anything a car or truck might experience during shipment. The same testing method also is used to determine best methods of packing and shipping engines, sheet metal and other ning shipping tests on the Cor-1 vair, introduced in 1959 as the industry started shipping fully assembled cars in multilevel, lopen-faced rail cars. Early tests were far different from the present pushbutton, laboratory method.

The first Corvairs shipped by rail were tied down on bilevel cars as technicians watched from an adjacent caboose, checking instruments wired to the shipping car. The technicians traveled thousands of miles to all parts of the country to make their tests. It was decided the same re; sults could be accomplished more efficiently if a railroad simulator could be constructed. Material handling and design and instrumentation engineers joined efforts to work out and build the simulator. The device, even duplicates "humping" of railroad cars by sending the laboratory version against a large planked wall.

From January until the 1965 models were introduced to the public, prototypes of the new Chevrolets were given about 25,000 miles of testing. Models given the most extentests are those with the greatest design changes. This year, emphasis was put on shipping of the Corvair and the regular Chevrolet. About 2,200 makes of cars have appeared in the United States DEPENDABLE I MEMBER INSURANCE HUNTER'S ACCIDENT POLICY for gainfully employed persons Includes: Death Medical Benefits Expense $150 Weekly Indemnity Up FLINT AGENCY 804 HARRISON ST. Phone CE 2-0157 RAIL SIMULATOR--A technician in Chevrolet's railroad car laboratory in Detroit meas.

ures conditions which a new car will experience during actual rail shipment. The device, which has vibrating machinery beneath the shipping compartment, helps determine the best way to tie down cars and trucks for rail travel. Air Conditioner Sales Climb More Drivers Playing It Cool By CHARLES C. CAIN DETROIT (AP)-An ever increasing number of motorists are really cool these days as a result of a steady climb in the auto air conditioner market. Over a million 1 1964 cars were outfitted with factory-installed air conditioning and the industry looks for an even higher figune with its 1965 models.

Use of such units has come into its own of late, doubling its penetration of total car production every three years from 4.6 per cent of auto output in 1958 to 8.1 per cent in 1961 and a record 17.9 per cent in the 1964 models. This rate of acceptance coupled with stronger auto sales generally has seen cars built with air conditioners increase from 414,000 in the 1960 models to 1,412,000 in the 1964 model year. New Test Road Opened at GM Technical Center The test road at the General Motors Technical Center at Warren is now a divided highway. Opened last week was a 2.6 mile stretch of two-lane, concrete road, which is separated from the old road by a guardrail. Both the old road, resurfaced with asphalt, and the new road are 24 feet wide.

The expanded road is used for quick test runs of automotive and truck components and has a wire embedded in the center of each lane for automatic vehicle guidance experiments. Although extended test programs are carried out at the GM Proving Ground at Milford, more than 18,000 tests were conducted at the Technical Center last year. I a ditioned Customer cars is demand national for air but as one would expect much of it centers in the South and the Southwest and the West. A survey by the trade publication, Ward's Automotive Reports, showed that auto assembly plants in Missouri, Texas, California and Georgia installed Auto Dealers Hit Warranty Pacts Say Manufacturers Violating Terms HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP)The Arkansas Automobile DealSeers Association says many areas of responsibility under new extended warranty plans are being ignored and violated by automobile manufacturers.

The association concluded its 30th annual convention here by approving two resolutions atlacking manufacturers on administration of extended warranty programs and for what the dealers called "a completely unrealistic merchandising I program." The dealers sald they deplored, shown an "apparent dealers and indiffer- customers by manufacturers to the many problems created by extended warranty plans." The resolution said: "We urgently recommend a genuine and sincere effort be made by manufacturers to equalize burden of this presently unfair land is expensive now dealer administered." problem In the second resolution the association, said of manufacturers seeming toward dealers' problems is further emphasized by their passive acquiesence to union demands for higher wages and numerous fringe benefits." LAST 3 WEEKS CLOSING FOR WINTER MONTHS Earl Scheib PRESIDENT, EARL SCHEIB, INC. THE TIME IS FOR AUTO PAINTING DIAMOND GLOSS SUPER DIAMOND GLOSS EVERY CAR A EVERY CAR INFRARED TUNNEL BAKED 29 95 NO ANY. NO ANY COLOR- CAR 5 95 NO ANY NO' ANY 'UPS" COLOR CAR OVER 25 YEARS VALUE: INTEGRITY QUALITY. Earl THE WORLD'S LARGEST AUTO PAIN Hours: Mon. Fri, 7:30 am to pm Sat.

8 am to 12 noon 1721 N. SAGINAW ST. PHONE 235-5641 nearly 40 per ordered cent by of U. the S. cool- motorists last year.

Oldsmobile took the device in a whopping 96 per of its 1964 model standard sized cars built at its Arlington, Texas, plant. The installment rate at Oldsmobile's home plant in Lansing, ran i about 34 per cent. A strong 71 per cent of regular sized Buicks built at Atlanta, took air conditioning with the Flint home plant having a 42 per cent rate. Regular size Chevrolet built at Arlington, took the coolers at 67 per cent rate and Southgate had a 34 per cent installation average. In addition to demands for cooling units installed in cars as they go down the assembly line, there has been a corresponding increase in the demand for such units purchased individually by motorists at garages or stores.

Welders to Hear GMI Staff Man High Life Inn, Saginaw. Fisk, associate professor of business, will discuss business management. Engineer Unit to Tour Chevy Power House The Power Plant Engineers Club of Saginaw Valley will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Bishop Airport. The group will travel by bus from the airport to Chevrolet Manufacturing Plant for a tour of its power house.

Metals Society Names Speaker An official of the Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y., will speak at a meeting the Saginaw Valley Chapter of the American Society for Metals at 7 p.m. Thursday at the High Life Inn, Dr. Joseph Olcott, director of chemical research for Corning. will discuss "Recent Progress with Brittle Materials." Used Car Warranty Offered by Mercury DETROIT (UPI) Lincoln Mercury Division of Ford Saturday announced a used car warranty plan offering customers nationwide service for a period of 12 months or 12,000 miles. Mercury said the Safe Buy Crest warranty plan is being made available to all separate Lincoln-Mercury dealers and is the first one year, nationwide used car warranty ever offered by a new car dealer orgizantion.

Dennis Distributor Named Datsun Dealer Dennis Distributor, Flint hearse dealership, has been named, a dealer for Datsun automotive line of Nissan Motor Japan. The firm, located at 4804 N. Saginaw is owned by Dennis Penhaligon. Ford to Add Shift For Truck Assembly LOUISVILLE, KY. (AP) -The Ford Motor for the first time since 1957, will add a second shift to its truck assembly operations in Louisville.

The addition, scheduled early in 1965, will create more than 400 new jobs and bring total employment to 3,300. Denzel W. Fisk, a member of the General Motors Institute faculty, will speak in? meeting of Saginaw Valley Section of the American Welding Society at 7 p.m. Thursday at the components to assembly plants. It also would provide greater since the birth of the auto indusChevrolet said it began run- security for future models.

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