Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1941 — Page 24

° .at the Speedway

| PAGE 10 _ Earl Gilmore Will Receive Edenburn Cup

Honored for Support of Competitive Racing

"Earl B. Gilmore of California has been chosen to receive this year’s Edenburn Trophy, presented annually to the individual who has made the greatest contribution to - automobile racing during the year. Mr. Gilmore, who is president of the Gilmore Oil Co. and the A. F. Gilmore Co., has

track racing California to cars

here and straight- J _ away runs at Muroc Dry Lake and - the Bonneville Salt Beds of Utah. (Pop) Myers, chairman 3: of the Award Mr. Gilmore Committee, said: “The token honors the memory of the late Eddie Edenburn, one of racing’s most. colorful figures, and it is fitting that the award goes to another such man who often defers his business interests to encourage the competition both he and Eddie loved so well.” Last year the trophy was awarded to Louis Schwitzer of the SchwitzerCummins Co., who served as chair-

man of the technical committee for

many years. The committee [Charged with making the selection in addition to “Pop” Myers, includes Ted Allen, . executive secretary of the AAA Contest Board, Waldo Stein, the Firestone racing expert, and Art Pillsbury, the Contest Board's Western representative.

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Brisko Dreams

# Of 200 M.P.H.

If experiments being made by Frank Brisko, the machine shop owner from Chicago, prove successful, the racing world may see a 200-mile-an-hour car within a year or two. Ey Frank, who lives and breathes motors, already has proved his “radical ideas” of mechanics in a midget race car which he claims is

“the fastest of the midgets.” His big secret of the future 200mile car is 2 “camshaftless” motor. The Brisko midget uses no camshaft and “revs” up to 5600 and has proven satisfactory in its 200 hours of running tests. Hydraulic

ilaction is used instead of a cam-

shaft, and, according to Frank, gives smoother performance and eliminates any possibility of “valve

¥ A! | bouncing.” ’

“If I can use this same principle

Z lon a much larger scale in a stan-

dard size motor no track in existence could hold the speed of the car. Two hundred miles is far from an impossibility,” says Frank.

They Like the Oil

The average American motorist has -a horror of oily streets and highways. Sliding, to him, is not conducive to safe or sane driving. However, some of the Speedway drivers dislike a great amount of rain before the race because it

\}. | washes off oil which accumulates on

SOLE OWRERS OS THIS FAMOUS

the turns. Oil spots—within bounds, of course—help the cars slip around the curves at higher speeds than

could be made on a dry, clean track.

and James A. Allison.

industry, and these gentlemen up to their necks in this growth, They were among the, first “Good Road” boosters. Carl Fisher was one of the leaders in

the development of both the Lincoln and Dixie Highway. Fisher also had, in the spirit of pure adventure, toured § the country fairs 3 as a race pSrive:; N and in 19 ha “ 99 become one of Yop” Myers the first men to ever travel more than 3 mile a minute. These men had every.reason to hope for and sponsor the development of the automobile, and the two-and-a-half mile speedway was their contribution. : It is a legacy which the manage-

ment Has preserved as something|iq

sacred.

Tomorrow, we will run our 29th 500-mile race. Two races were dropped during the war years of 1917 and 1918, so that this is really our 32d year of operation. If there had not been a strong, sincere, worthwhile motivating force be-

hind this operation it certainly

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Race Is Industry's No. 1 Testing Plant, Says Myers

By T. E. (POP) MYERS Vice President and General Manager, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Nothing throughout the years has dimmed the precepts which were laid down one chilly night in 1908 by four gentlemen who had determined that the automobile had come to stay. : Those gentlemen were Carl G. Fisher, A. C. Newby, F. H. Wheeler

A Lot of Parts in These Race Cars

It would be easier to take apart an elaborate clock than a race car. There are about 3000 separate parts in a speed creation. Of these more than 1500 are termed by drivers as “vital parts.” If any one of the 1500 goes bad the machine has to stop for repairs. ad

Indianapolis was then the. center of the fast-growing automobile

“ithe many little:

‘Jin the dark of the night or behind

its way into the

| contribute to motors years after the

would have been doomed to failure many, many years ago.

Why Indianapolis Goes On

We have seen many honorable and well-financeqd automobile race tracks promoted in many parts of the country and have watched them fall by the wayside, and I have been asked many times why they failed while Indianapolis has succeeded. My answer is that, in addition to being a great spectacle, the 500-mile race at the Indianapclis Motor Speedway is designed to prove something of value to the automotive industry. By this I do not mean that the high-speed, highly experimental racing automobiles which compete at Indfanapolis today are designed to produce a better Buick, a faster Cadillac, a more modern Chrysler, or a more comfortable Lincoln, but I do mean that the general information which comes from the study of these sensitive motors, capable of turning over from 5000 7000 revolutions per. minute, rw Ri ihe Soreral improvement reed o e ordinar - enger car, jy pass Four-wheel brakes, st usa by the late pay at the Speedway in 1921: straight-eight motor developed fe the Duesenberg Brothers for racing back in 1920; the rear-view mirror first used by Ray Harroun in winning the first race in 1911; balloon tires, ethyl gasoline, and many other gadgets, were first used and tested in the 500-mile race which automotive engineers claim is equivalent to some 50,000 miles of ordinary travel. diy

About the ‘Little Gadgets’

These are the general contributions to the industry known to all, but the public is seldom aware of

gadgets such piston. rings, piston pins, shock _ scrbers; spark plugs, oiling systems and the like which are under pressure every Decoration Day while dozens of automotive engineers listed on the technical committee, are keen and interested observers. I am sure that no one will ever know of the many things which are constantly being tested at Indianapolis during the course of the race tomorrow. Many are secret. Many are fuel formulas which are mixed

which were Jimmy Mur-

closed garage doors.

pose of aiding the industry, but for the more practical purpose of win-

but the industry does and may borrow freely of the ideas expanded and perfected in this gruelling test

of high, sustained speed for 500 miles. ?

Is It Car of Tomorrow?

Now at the track are two cars which are powered from motors in the rear and driven through all four wheels. Who can say that this is not the car of tomorrow? There is one car with a newfangled fuel cooling system which may be the answer to the problem of too hot fuel feeding from superchargers. There is another car here with the lightest and still the most practical four-wheel braking system yet invented, which Huy fad passenger car of tomorrow. There are cars whose er than the ordinary passenger car motor, ready to tell the technicians what happens to oil and clearance and fuel at these terrific speeds, and tomorrow your car may run smoother and faster and farther because of this thing which you look upon as § sporting event. “s So that is why the Indianapolis Motor Speedway lives on to ‘vitally

men who founded it are gcne, but they would be proud to know that the torch of motor progress which they ignited back in 1908 still burns

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motors turn over three times fast-|:

down to thousandths of inches.

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Joie Chitwood, Cherokee Indian from Topeka, Kas., is piloting ‘the Blue Crown Spark Plug Special this year. A born “lead-foot,” Joie pulled his car around the track in qualifications at an average speed of 120.329 miles an hour. Joie is now 27 and makes racing his year‘round occupation. He once played football for the Haskell Indians.

One of his hobbies is taking mov--

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Magna In Picks Flaws

That small Speedway-A. A. A. seal that stands on the side of every

{approved racing car is the 500-mile .|driver’s assurance that each steel

rod, frame and knuckle in the ma-

§ .|chine is as sturdy as it looks.

The seal might be called a

! _|“diploma” from the Magnaflux ma-

chine, the testing equipment that totally eliminates the human ele: ment in ferreting out fatigued metal or hidden cracks. : The Magnaflux, borrowed fron the aviation industry, was put into use at the Speedway in 1933. Prior to that, the A. A. A. technical committee was responsible for the mechanical equipment in racing. | Committee ‘members made visual

checks, paying particular attention’ to steering parts, axles and frames and equipment more liable to oc--casional accidents. But these auto= motive engineers, after all, had no way of X-raying the parts.

And that’s what the Magnaflux

does. It is simply a magnetizing machine which sets up a cross-cur= rent of electricity in a part, which, if interupted by a hidden crack, sets up another current which reflects itself if the part is dipped into iron filings suspended in oil. With this ‘machine the technical * committee can locate cracks and _ imperfections not visible to the .

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