2012.022.224
Print, Photographic
Black and white photographic print depicting a Buick on a lift with a man standing underneath reaching up to it. In the background are two more cars on lifts.
Caption reads: Barely visible on this car's driveshaft is a tiny radio transmitter that will broadcast test data to a nearby receiver when the car travels over the road. This new technique of telemetering vibrations, stresses or temperatures saves time and effort. Formerly, General Motors Proving Ground engineers had to devise complicated, less reliable circuitry to pick up information from almost inaccessible rotating components in engines, transmissions or rear axle housings.
Dated May, 1964.
Handwritten on verso: Used in Motor News Aug 1964