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AT the annual dinner of the Institution of Auto mobile Engineers on October 12, Sir Herbert Austin referred to the debt the automobile industry owes to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; and the extent to which the industry receives help from the Department is dealt with in the recent annual report of the Research and Standardization Committee of the Institution. During the year ending June 30, 1934, the total income of the committee was £9,963, which included £5,000 from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, £1,962 from subscriptions and £2,500 from the Department. The year's expenditure on research was about £6,000. To stimulate further research, the Department has offered to increase its contribution to £5,000 if the industry will find £10,000, and to £10,000 if the industry will find £15,000. As the output of motor-cars in Great Britain was stated by Sir Frank Smith at the dinner to be 285,000 a year, it should not be difficult for the industry to find a sum which amounts to practically a shilling a car. Researches are already in hand on cylinder wear, valve seat wear, bearings, oil consumption, piston temperatures, brakes and other matters, and from these valuable information has been obtained.
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Research in the Automobile Industry. Nature 134, 657 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134657b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134657b0