HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1941-01-02, Page 3THURSDAY, JANUARY 2; 1941
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CRASH DOCTORS
The rain ;froze as it bit the high-
way. A smart sedan moved cautiously
over 'the treacherous ice. At the crest
of a hill. car gathered unexpected
speed, .\ touch on Ow brake locked
the wheel: that Could find no traction;
the car swerved and Dien ged cm with
-g.athering momentum until it skidded
from .the road, turned (wer, and
Ploughed on its side through 'frozen
mud and stones, Thanks to fortune
and the modern all -steel .hody of the
car, the occupants were able to climb
out, shaken but uninjured, and survey
the damage—erumpled fenders, lbent
-doors, crushed roof—more work 'for
the crash doctors, says James Rich-
mond in the C, I. L. !Oval.
ler.ash -doctors, in auto body or col-
liaion works. are automdbile surgeons.
A first class collision and refinishing
shop, with 'modern technique and
equipment. can set ;the "bones". 'heal
the "skin", and -restore the ;beauty of
almost any wrecked auto so that it will
defy deltection in locks or VeriAly111-
2.11Ce.
11011e. the Kellwood Nutt)
Sltop in Toronto,. res -
Id ears last year.
I d all the way from
, Itchet riders tic seemteglv hope-
• wreo... Th.. 01011:leer of this shop
Lard 41 that 1 intuit like at
mold. "That is tuy ear", -he
completely ,autted by 'fire
tor- 1 I'd it." This ear had caught
Itt bit garage 0 Main —possibly
mi A •molderine eigarette. The
hole inisd.a• %same. t charred mass,
fireman poired water 111 tae red -
;of steel roof and warped it badly.
elerthelett, eueine mci .ires escaped
1(1 tare; sa, with tor, 11 and tools, the
%WI top aas shrank stall beaten -back
, form. Cashioa springs, and
titer parts that had lost their temper
from the bit, were replaeed. New up -
holt -wry and new -Dalco" finish com-
pleted the miracle, such a miracle at is
only ,possible through the teitinces of
engineering and colour chemistry phis
the experience and skill of the crash
doctor.
ILe't's watch sante men working on a
sedan that was sandwiched endways
;between a truck and a street car. The
trtui1 ie smashed .n anj the wholc. Year
of the body is wrinkled, crushed and
slashed forward until the back doors
vrlap the front doers by inches, 'the
men thrace a steel rail inside across the
solid rout of the 'body, and another
rail against the back. Between the awo
rails they set a light hydraulic jack.
Tina tool, buildiing up a force of tons.;
actually stretches the wrinkled steel
body to its original length. Sintilar
tools of different sizes, with sponge
rubber pads 'between them and the
body steel, force other parts of the
body steel back to shape from the
inside, Where edges of the -trunk have
!buckled outward, the men temporarily
weld wires so that a turnbuckle can
draw the edgea into line again.
Bent frames and axles are also
straightened by hydraulic ;pressure,
WY(' without applying any heat. The
use of beat to facilitate straightening
destroys 'the temper af the metal and
weakens it , as some owners have
learned at heavy cost and risk to life
when Jobs have been done cheaply in
in -equipped shops, The same applies
to wheels., which are straightened by a
special machine. Even striking a curb
sharply ran put a Wheel off true—
perhaps not enough to 'be detected by
the eye, but (mite enough to cause
costly wear on tires. In a reliable shop
all repairs to running gear Oils
conforin exactly to 'factory specifica-
tions, and are checked with elaborate
'testing egaipment, For safety, steers
tag parts are never -repaired but are
always repItteed.
With the ;general contours of the
car restored, fenders and hod' metal
have many bumps and hollows to
be Trotted out. Alt one time this was
laboriously accomplished by placing
a heavy iron 'form against one side of
the steel while tapping the other side
with a hammer. Now the work has
been tremendously speeded up by the
use of a %pneumatic vibrator shaped
like a huge "C". The two points of
the "C" are adjustable to fit closely,
one on each side of the sheet metal,
and are greased to slide smoothly. Ten
thousand tains a minute by this tool
soon restore the smooth curves, but
not smooth enough for the "Duce"
or "DMus" finish that mutt remove
Ow last frac' of damage. Hand work
with a steel rasp cuts off the more
pranounced surface blemishes; a spe-
cial compound fills up depres-
sions. and scratches; and finally power
d.
THE SEAFORTH NEWS
ealotir iiitcicico sitter ilIoL Carl, 11"
not resmire ti ho refinithing%
For years -Deters" and "Isaias"
finishes have heal standard (m it
makes of motor cars. WItihin the past
live years alone no les, than seven
• thousanddifferent shades have ap-
Awared on cars nitwit: in Lanada and
the United Sues. The average eye
might the sable to Elistiuguish about twa
thousand of these as •ditTeretit varia-
tions of the three primary colors, Init
many of them are so elm:v.-that. even a
color expert is compelled to ;use 00
apparatus to assist his vision in deter-
miaing thelll apart.
:Yot a call for any one of these
seven thousand colors may arise at 0
moment's notice from any cross-
roads village in ;Canada that: bucists
refinishing shop, Inn obviously it WI,
out facilities 'for matching colors ex-
pertly. The solution to this problem
is hoot ided by a special service main-
tained to entity every refinisher
-provide an exact match to the color
of any ear on the road that is not so
badly wrecked that its aerial plate
obliterated. And it's as simple as
this.
Each color scheme selected by the
mot,,r car ManufaCtiner for the diff-
ereet models is as:igaed an individual
number which appears on the car',
serial plate as: a permanent record. for
refinishing. C-11, color service -re-
leases the information to all refinish,
ers111 advance of actual car tion, and ensures that distributors in
.all part: of the country receive uiiiiu'
Stock" ;t1 the tame et, rs seleete,1
the Car manufacturers. Thus, if a car
even slightly scratched •in transit
inion the factoryto dealer. its finish
can lie speedily renewed in exactly
the same color by the nearest re 111'
,her, who has already 'received his
color record on that particular model,.
tont has only to phone his distributor;
for the regnired shade. Nor does tht.
tige of the car present any
for color records on all cars made in
Canada for over ten years back are
maintained. Even a lalopp.y" Elated
.19311 could he refinished in the orig-
inal colors as long as the color
scheme number remains -legible,
So your car or truck need newer
become a motley assortment of odd
ifentl'ers, doors and patchwork colors.
The happiest tolutiOn, of course, isto
remember that the 'greatest cause of.
accident'a. is too much speed for pre-
vailing ;conditions. The second is lack
of attention by the driver. Respect
icy roads and ;follow the traffic lines,
ihti•t, if accidents do 'happen, look for
the crash doctor who lets science
mateh the finish. He'll probably be
just as careful to restore safety as he
is to re:tore beauty.. •
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LONDON 1-10'SPITALS CARRY
ON DESPITE RAIDS
itombiing of le al- in (.'trett
Brit tin Ity the Getman Air Force 1-t
not having die effeett which the Nazis
WO11111 'nape. It 1, not causing terror
or confusion. It 1: pattina the lmu-
don surgeon's, docts.rs. 111.11',L'S and
hO,pital 1-A.aff, generally more Man
ever on their mettle,
visit to a London 1 10,ital which
has been Inuit-ie:1, to see the b epital
staff at work, to hear the stories of
quiet brievery amid raids is something
never to be forgotten. This is the
story of just one hospital.
On the seventh floor, Where ;the.
bomb fell, the chapel has -been .1%,:t-
royerl. The beautiful windows are
tone, the roof has fallen, the altar is
sea ti erect. and the organ ;hat teretl.
'But qiilletale has lent 11'. a grand
piano,'Sister Prior, the assistant ,Ntat.
rots. told nie. "1-1 is surprising what
ice managed to save. It is it
what you can do."
I thought the same as 1 looked
around. It 1- •wmplerful what they can
do, I noticed that even the splintered
wood of the chairs had been repaired
with little pieces of stieking plaster.
"NN'e don't want people rromm g
milinters into their hands and legs.
explained Sister Prior with a itaiet
smile; "There's quite miough troable
as. it
-Only the first three of seven
floors are used at ward,, so there is
plenty of security, with four reinforced
concrete floors above. There are spec-
ial wards 11)1. air casualties, and 1110.‘e
Who have been rendered homeless. N'N'e
had a number of old married couples,
hut we couldn't fii, them together so
tiles. had to lie separated until they
moved off to the country where they
go after a few days rest in the hospit-
al,"
In the casualty station on the
ground %floor everything is ready for
emergencies. Nurses and doctors are
always 011 duty; volunteer stretcher
hearers are ready to take the patients
from the ambulances as they come in.
In the operating theatre lives are
saved .hy the 'most skilled surgeons
in the world.
&fere it one story - grim, yet inspir-
ing. Outside, the night planes droned
overhead. There was cramp of drops
ping 'bombs. The first casualty to in -
in was a four months old
baby, lie had been hlown from his
mother's 110115 210 she luirried to a
shelter, She, herself. was uninjured.
1 w;t, down there at the sime,'
said Sister Prior. 'The little. mite •rla,
1)11(113' 1111'0'4. . a11(1 SO ..11ent
That's always a bad tiam."
Quietly the doctors got 10 WOrk
They fought to fan a tiny spark o
life. The %battle went on. The
whimpered. INN'ithin fifteen minntes ht
Wt.. crying. 7. cry of istin, but to tie,
group of whitescoated worker: lb,
cry melon that another life Wa+. saved
driven sandpaper 111.0411re, a hath13
,111001.11 surface of gleaming metal.
Sometimes a deep dent or 'gouge ill
body steel results from contact with a
tipihe or ',harp corner. Tri 11011114 the
metal smooth would nece:sitate re-
moving upholstery, and to quit a torch
on the metal in order ,to fill the Eleps
ression ith Solder would burn the up-
holstery. In such eases a small electric
gun alpiots molten =alder 1111. the
cohl metal -until the depression it
filled.
With all repaired surfaces smooth
and bright, broken sAil1(1)Iwt are
refitted with tafety ,glas: - for which
patterns are on liand for all makes and
models—and the jog) is ready for the
refinishing shop,
Several taints of primer and surfacer
are applied and sanded down Ru
smooth foundation for the "I)tieo"
"Dulux" ;finish. The crash doctor then
comes to that one baffling 'problem of
To Make Us Invisible In War
.7.11 article - itt Th, Ameriean
NN'eekly with the January 5 issue of
The Detroit Sunday Times - will tell
Inew the best brains of the nation
among arehiteets, artists, philatoph-
ers, engineers and other technieians
are 11005 being trained to smn ont
trick, for hiding America front an
enemy. 1 e titre to get The 1)etroit
Sunday Times.
With tt modest lop on the door, the
11('W Ofilel) 110y entered the manager's
room.
"Please, sir," he said nervously. at
think you're wanted on the tele-
phone."
"Yon think, boy!" snapped the
manager. "What's the gond of think-
ing?"
"Well, sir, someone at the other
end said, 'IS that you, 314ra old
Idiot'?"
Send us the names of your eishors
ON Gr--"-!""---
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riE FIVE
PAGE TH'.
Inc third 1
Ewell week airplanes of the Royal Canadian Air Force fly
70j1(+8 along Canacla'e sea coast on constant patrol. This big Rads
es its wings over B merchant ship, part of an Atlantic.convoy.
THE NAVY THAT FLIES
-. r: Behind the Epiic of Taranto 4:3.
a Na‘al Corre,ptoident,
Once referred to a, the Navy's
younge,t child, the Fleet Air .1rin to-
day has grown into a vtging stal.cart
1110 11,.thinv Imtot•cr to learn
alamt air
1.,,r many mon of the War the
-lava: Air .‘rtn came little into the
TWA,. 't'ic- tradition, of a -.Silent
Service" are its tradition, too. Little
or 0Othirl‘A WA, said of alp th..a sands
miles of the Ninth Sea tmd Atlan-
tic ceaselessly patrolled, of the clashes
with enemy aircraft, the sighting and
.inking of enemy V. -boats. ln the A;
,tarching for enemy raiders,
the "Ark lioyal" covered 75;100 miles
-while her planes reconnoitred five
million square miles of sea.
Then came Norway., Within a few
days of that ;gallant, ill-fated expedi-
tion the deeds of the Fleet Air Arm
leapt into world prominence. when it
played a great part in protecting von
troops and ships against enemy bomb-
ers, and launched its own -daring at-
tacks upon the enemy bases, war-
41iPs, transports and supply ships.
'1We art. proud of the Fleet Air
.Nrm" was the signal made by the
Admiralty to the young Hers at 'the
conclusion of these operations, '11 is
rare for the deeds of the Navy to 'he
so warmly commended.
Tlivr, was a Royal Naval Nir Ser-
„ee 'before 10)1.4. In 1417 the R . N.
N la-cami. part the R. 3'
alost of its pilots and all of its
ser, ars were provided Ins the nary
0.1111e the R. 7., P. smadieil the main-
letririre ttaff, ls the need for a
s.romier Naval .Nin 1.1ortse became ap-
•,,,reat, it was decided to IllY1,11011
111.t; method In Alas-, 10'). the Flee.
bir arm passed to the control of the
savy.
'11 aday the Fleet .Nir dam lives in
ltritain's growing fleet of airerifi
soriers, in warship,: cart.
oar planes each, in sli.,re stations
hich, like all naval •establishments
shore. carry the name ‘,1 [lis
r•-ty% ships. There is H.M.S. Ihed-
01us. 1<e:trel, H.IN-1,.S. Per-
tigrine--to name 'but a few
The machines tio An 6y these gall-
ant young men of the Fleet Air Arm
art- of first-clast quality and can ibe
11 -ed for nearly every purpose. There
re a nranber of types in use, among
'lam) the Fairy Swordfish. •the Fair-
, y Albacore. the Fairey Fulmar and
As fighters. long-range reeimnais-
stiince machines and torpedo -bomb
er- they -have more than proved -their
efficiency.
The firing of a torpedo from an
aircraft is at tricky a %business as can
be imagined. Though no details as to
the exact method used to put three
t%i Mussolini's capital ships out of ac-
tion have been revealed, there are
many who think -that torpedoes, rath-
"THE PUREST FORM IN WHICH
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er than littaNy ;bombs, may lausisaisuhlsoworlf
E'lli"tt;'111..ethilic'eniisrlstiletomat'lice, stillFlieleatgcrhe‘iiyt, :eel. thee:::
come ,o low Iv, go risk the
To fire a torpedo, the
point blank rang, of the enem
aircraft .gun,. Llespite the harrar Atm -
machine must 1,,' poised with must
accuracy at the low height and riniost
from which -the torpedo reaches Itti-
.
Plark.
Nomatter how the epic of -raranto
was accomplished. the Fleet Air Arm
inflicted a smashing nalval -defeat on
the enemy. In addition, it 'provided a
great yew feather in the rap of the
.nAoht. 4.1AIrrZdyhaskoto:k•eilit, that the Y"
Navy that Iles, and st112tot-s, awideeddida
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from overseas for British furnishilp
fabrics. Despite the temporary lea'
of important markets,
Scandinavia, the makers 0.1 third
fabrics are sending abroad 't.fing
more than they did before the? less
Exiles from the invaded coAulitiF
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buttons to a craft dating's
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