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Vecember 21, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE 41 NORTH SHORE CLUB'S SCHOOL CAMPAIGN Steel Spoke Wheel FOR SAFETY PROMISING New Achievement ·to Credit of Ford Next Generation Will Be "TrafficWise," Is Prediction of Motor Club President Th~ next generation in the United States will be "traf-fic-wise." predicts Charles M. Hayes of Winnetka, president of the Chicago Motor Club. Mr. Hayes based his prediction on the practical safety lessons that are being expounded every day by the school boy's patrol; the weekly discussions between teachers and classes anent safety posters, and educational work along the same lines in the home. "The greater part of this program is sponsored by automobile clubs affiliated with the American Automobile Association ," explained Mr. Haves. "There are nearlv 1,100 of them in ·the United States. ·As an example, the Chicago Motor Club has assi sted in organizing and maintaining patrols numbering more than 14,000 mernbers in the fift y-one counties in which it operates. V..' hite belts and badges are supplied fre e to those young officers, who guard the lif e ai1d limb · of approximately 1,250,000 pupils. "vVe also issue more than 50.000 two-color posters. portraying a vivid le sson in safety, free of charge each month to sch ool s in our territory. The posters, like th e patrol, are th e result of a yast am ount of research in determining th e best methods of waming the youngster s again st the danger s of the street. "The lesson s conveyed by the patrol and post er s are stamp ed on the young mind whil e it is still recepti\'e and pliable. \\"e hcli c\'e that they will bP r emembered by th e pupils throughout their lives. like th e A B C' s · or th e multiplication table. Material a ss ist ance is given by parP.nt s wh o continue these le . sons in the home." Road Tips Condition of roads in Illinois and nearby states is reported by the Chicago Motor club as follows: ILLINOIS Illinois-6--Detour at Westchester; follow marked detour over Pusheck road south to 22nd street; follow this west to the Mannheim road or Illinois46: follow this north to Illinois-6. Illinois-42-Detour 111 Lake Forest; follow marked detour over city streets. INDIANA US-50-Completion of new pavement from Indiana-1 to Dillsboro removes a 22-mile detour. Indiana-53-Two miles of new pavement is opened from Rensselaer north . This removes a S-mile detour. US-20-All open and paved. US-30-All open and paved, except for a gravel run-around at the Erie railroad, 2 miles east of Shererville, and 1,400 feet of crushed stone at the drainage canal, east of Haiia. US-41-This route which is mostly all pavement is all open at present. US-52-All paved except for 16 miles of gravel between Andersonville and Brookville . .. No detours at present. WISCONSIN US-12- Closed for about 2 blocks south from the junction of Wisconsin23 at Delton . A fair detour is provided. This detour, caused by con- 6411 Graham-Paige Dealers to Gather · in Detroit, Jan. 3 Graham-Paige having registered a big year has just issued invitations for it s fir st national dealer's conven tion according to Carl Hanson of Han son Motors, \Vinnetka GrahamPaige distributor. The e\'ent is to be held at Detroit on January 3 and 4. The dealers will be shown an elaborate exposition of the growth and progre ss of the Graham-Paige Motors Corporation in its first year as builder of cars bearing the name of the three Graham brothers. They will be shown the new buildings that have been added to the main plant for increasing the 1929 .capacity. The new engineering laboratory, with its elaborate equipment. and the final test building and test track will come in for especial attention. At Wavne, not far from Detroit, material exoansion has been made in the Graham-Paige bodv factory, and a lar.Q'e grouo of buildings in Detroit itself has been added to plant facilities for the export and the service departments. Steel spoke wh eels for Lincolns is th e latest move by Henry Ford, according to D. W . Leonard of the Skokie Motor company of Wilmette, north shore Ford distributor. "When Ford introduced the steel spoke wheel in Ford cars, having the parts welded together into one piece , and making the spokes integral with the rim and hub, engineers. began to look forward to th e building of a similar wheel for the Lincoln car." said Mr. Leonard. "The strength and ~ ecurity of the one-piece wheel were proved so completely that its adoption by Lincoln was looked forward to. Various preliminary questions had to be answered, and a number of ob stacles overcome before that could be done, but one by on e, after exhaustive experimental \vork and conclusive tests, these were overcome, and the necessary equipment was in stalled in the Lincoln plant to produce wire wheels · for Lincoln cars. The wheel is now in production. "Twenty long and twenty short spokes are used in it s manufacture. Th e former connect the rim to the out er end of the hub, while the latter arc used between th e rim and the in-· side e nd of the huh. The spokes are held in position for welding by loading fixtures that automatically det ermine their angle and di stance apart. and also locat es the rim and huh in a proper relative position. "The spokes arc welded in groups o f ten. necessitating eight welding machin es for th e operations. The short spokes are welded first, in tens to . the rim and then t'o the hub. The long spokes follow. being likewise welded fir st to the rim and th en to the hub . "The Lincoln one -piece wheel has been t ested conclusively at the experimental laboratory of the company at Dearborn. One trial was an impact te sting machine to determine the wh eel's resistance to a severe impact blow. It stimulates the effects of skidding and striking agait~st a curb and is measured in foot-pound s. A footpottnd is th e hlow caused hv one pound falling on e foot. and in the case of tht> Lincoln wheel. a maximum of 400 footpounds was reached. It was possible to measure the amount of deflection following each blow as well as the endurance of the wheel in withstanding it." Nash to Construct Huge Steel Plant; Will Cost Million A record year by Nash Motors Comp_ a ny is to result in a huge piece of expansion, according to word received by 0. E. Springer of Suburban Nash Sales of Winnetka, this being the construction of a million dollar steel plant at Racine. The new plant will be for the joint use of the Nash factories at Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha. The details of construction, the location of the pfant, definite cost, or the time work will begin on the building are not yet settled. Racine is the logical place for the plant. Production at the Nash plants now at a seasonal level will shortly after the first of the year step up to a point that will average 1,000 units daily by mid-spring. struction, probably will be in effect all winter. Wisconsin-36--Closed' for concrete construction between Lyons and Springfield in Walworth county. Traffic to Lake Geneva can follow Wisconsin-14 to Elkhorn and US-12 to Lake Geneva and avoid this route. Wisconsin-30-Rough detour west of Lake Mills in Jefferson county. Wisconsin-13-Short detour north of Friendship in good condition. Wisconsin-70-Closed east of Fifield, in Price county. Detour well marked. but in rather poor condition. 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