Show Bonneville Rest with Electric Eye By UNITED PRESS When the super-speed drivers in their super-speed automobiles flash down the Bonneville Salt Flats this the man on the spot will be Art C. who operates the electric eye timing device for the American Automobile I The hopes of John the Lon- don fur and Ab Salt Lake's former will rest on the working of this It won't make any difference how fast they go over the glistening western Utah halt beds the mark won't be official unless the electric eye Didn't Work Something went wrong back in 1938 when George E. T. Eys-ton attempted the measured The eye didn't record his speed run and he had to try But this year Pillsbury is sure it will The eye has been treated like a baby since it was last In it was placed in a private drawing loom to make the trip across the continent this Last month it was given its at the bureau of standards in D. C. The bureau found it ran for a full hour and showed only seconds It was then sent to Los Angeles in the custody of James secretary of the AAA's contest It was shock mounted in a protective case marked in it's own private drawing Lamb remained with it at all Surrounded by pillows and perched on the berth in the drawing it arrived in Los Angeles and was turned over to Ernie who developed the Clover is expected to fly with it to the Salt flats a few days before the races where without anyone else touching will personally set it up and adjust Clover says the timing device is a big brother to the photo-electric device that is used to open doors and turn on water at drinking except that it is more highly Three Parts The eye consists of three The record unit consists of paper which records the time and is marked in units of of a Second is the mechanical motor unit which operates the And there is the photoelectric cell which causes the eye to record The mechanical unit is operated by the gravity pull of 80 pound making the actuating force The record part which controls the movement of paper and reloading of the cylinder is battery Clover's electric eye unit now overcomes some troubles that prevailed in the Such things as the reflection of terrific glare from the salt would cause This has now been eliminated by the use of light traps and The whole unit is connected to a Waltham chronometer which each secord corrects any error that may develop during t a metal least responsive to heat and cold and which does not contract or has been introduced to permit the timer to be used under any sort of climatic |