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Show FEDERAL BUREAU AIDS MOTORISTS More Efficient Fuels and Less Expensive Engines Being Studied. Motorists throughout the entire world are dully beneficiaries of Hie marvelous automotive laboratories of Uucle Sam's great bureau of standards at Washinglon, according to Charles M. Hayes, president of the Chicago Motor club, who has just received a recent digest of the bureau's activities In behalf of tnntordom through national na-tional headquarters of the American Automobile association. "Take fuels, for example," points out Mr. Hayes. "Here is a field of research re-search of tremendous importance to every user of an automobile. Through years of experimentation, the bureau's scientists have built up a body of knowledge which has proved of inestimable ines-timable value to the petroleum industry, in-dustry, and, consequently to the motorist. mo-torist. More efficient fuels, and more economical engines, are just single Instances In-stances of the great constructive work constantly being pushed forward at the bureau." v Examining Into the details of the bureau's accomplishments during the last few years, Mr. Hayes declares "this governmental agency has made monumental contributions to the cause - of safer motoring." Most Exhaustive Tests. "It has done this," he points out, "by conducting tests which have proved best methods In braking, of brake materials, ma-terials, and of general construction." These tests, he shows, have been of a most exhaustive character. "Nothing," he declares, "has been allowed to 6tand in the way of their successful completion. "In every direction, and in every conceivable phase of motor engineering, engineer-ing, the bureau has interested itself to bring about improvement. Naturally, In this work the bureau has had the fullest co-operation of the automotive Industry itself and of organized mo-tordom mo-tordom as represented in the American Automobile association, of which we are proud to be a part. "For that reason, the bureau has meant increasingly much to all those who own or drive motor cars." |