Word: crankshafts
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Scratch Catcher. General Motors Corp. showed off an electric instrument which can detect scratches as small as one millionth of an inch. The "Surfagage" can be used in machine shops and factories to record the surface roughness of an automotive piston, crankshaft, gear tooth or any other part with a machined, ground, honed or lapped surface...
Magneto & Crankshaft. On the 87th lap, Defending Champion Johnny Parsons dropped out with magneto trouble. A broken crankshaft put third-place Walt Faulkner out at 300 miles. Moments later, Mauri Rose, three-time winner, fishtailed into the infield with a collapsed wheel. The car turned turtle, but Mauri crawled out unhurt in the only serious accident...
...racers which floored ordinary readers. There were how-to-do-it hints from the hot-rodder who hit 120 m.p.h. after "pouring nitrated alky through three 975"; from another whose racing engine "is a Model B Ford, bored .060-inch oversize with Jahns pistons, Pontiac rods and a drilled crankshaft...
...other big manufacturer of piston engines, Curtiss-Wright Corp., is making a hybrid (for the Navy) on a different plan. Its Turbo-Cyclone 18 is a regular, 18-cylinder piston engine whose exhaust drives three turbines geared directly to the crankshaft. The energy recovered gives the engine more horsepower with over 15% more fuel economy...
...into Pittsburgh's Federal Court, demanded from Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. & the National Tube Co. a whopping $120 million. Last week in Cleveland, the same union sued Republic Steel for $56 million, American Steel & Wire Co. for $38 million. The United Automobile Workers demanded $12 million from Ohio Crankshaft...