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some investigations using the system being installed at the proving ground for the

Federal crash program work. This system is however, an FM system with inherent

inaccuracies which might lead to some erroneous conclusions. We both agreed that

we need to put together a demonstration vehicle and ground station for investigations.

The writer met with Mr. W. Fagley in the Vehicle Emissions Laboratory and
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left a copy of our report on the comparison tests cf our exhaust gas flowmeter. Mr.

Fagley was very interested and said he would review it very carefully - if it appears

feasible for his application he will request an estimate of time and material from us to

develop an automatic read out system for use with his computerized emissions test stand.
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He will also fight for acceptance of our technique as an approved Federal method of flow

measurement instead of a cumbersome and inaccurate system Currently proposed. This

would mean, of course, that emissions test equipment would be required to use this

technique and possibly the equipment if patenting were successful and prices competitive.

It does appear thus far that the device would be simplier and cheaper than current or

proposed techniques.

Tuesday morning the writer met with Mr. F. Deady in the Heater Laboratory to

review requirements to modify the laboratory heater and air conditioning component test^,

stands for automatic or semi-automatic operation to reduce the engineering time required

for repetitive type developmental tests.

After reviewing the problems and complexity of present manually operated stands

we agreed to start on the heater core test stand since it appears to be the simplest system

to rework. Drawing? schematic, and operating procedures were provided for our review and

use. Mr. Deady explained that Airtemp, heater core vendors, and manufacturing plants had

a requirement for such equipment for quality control purpose. Mr. Deady pointed uut that