Milwaukee School of Engineering - EMF Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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 4 5THE EHF- fa FORD RACING CAR 'Phis car as shown in picture one. shows cars as used on track except that track cord tires were used. This car attained a speed of 74 miles per hour for a distance of 38 miles on Chicago speeding in May. 1917. It was built and owned by the writer. The changes made in the car were as follows: Wheel base 110 inches, radiator 5y gallons, capacity, pump circulation engine has 1 ] 2 inch valves with lift of y inches by special cain shaft, 1% inch intake and exhaust ports with 3 inch exhaust pipe leading to rear of machine. Pis- tons were lynite with light connecting rods, ignition was a twatcr-kent type C. C.. the carburators uses was 1 4 in Master with stationary jets. The gas tank has 40 gallon capacity with air pressure to insure a positive feed at all times. 'Phis was the fastest Ford car built up to that time. It took a number of firsts including one at state fair at Springfield, Illinois. It was built by James Baker. Dc Witt. Illinois. AUTOMOTIVE 3-A The average battery man knows only three ways of burning terminal on storage batteries. These are the Ox-Acetylene. Ox-hydrogen and the carbon-cuc method. But James Baker has another way all his own : He says, “dad burn ’em.’- 'Plic same Baker claims to be the only man who has ever seen a volt. He declares that it happened one stormy day recently. The volt came out of the ground for just a short period of time but finding the temperature a bit unpleasant, it disappeared with such amazing rapidity as to make a whip- cracker of its tail. Oh. yes! the volt has a tail, you just ask Baker. On another page you will see James in his Universal racer. He makes quite a splash with this fire-wagon, but he made his biggest splash one day by driving off a Wheatstone bridge. Prior to this incident, the Wheatstone bridge had been quite an obsession on Baker’s mind, but recenti; we have heard very little about it. Class Editor Thompson of Class 3-A Auto Electrotechnicians seems quite worried of late but it is no wonder when one considers the burden his youth- ful shoulders carry. Scarcely had he entered school when the editorship was thrust upon him. He has borne up wonderfully, but it is feared he will have to abandon his studies for a complete rest-up when his work in connection with the get- ting up of the Annual is at last happily accomplished. Klinkc and Stcgeberg arc finding it slightly difficult to discern between negative and positive plates but Mr. Peterson hopes to clear them up on this point before they leave school. If they learn one thing thoroughly they will know more than some people. Just as our section goes to press we find that Weaver is missing from the laboratory where he has been working with group No. 1 of the 3-A class during the first week of laboratory work. We hope he will be around when our pictures are taken for the Annual, otherwise this great book will not be complete. If there is anything that group No. 1 would like to tell to their children and grand children in years to come, it is of their pleasant associa tion with one. “Weaver.” whom we all delighted to call “superintendent.” 4 Page Three Hundred Five

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