Word: trailering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Whitfield Ultra-Clean Room looks like a small metal house trailer without wheels. Its floor is metal grating. It is lined with stainless steel, and along one wall the workbench faces a 4-ft. by 10-ft. bank of "absolute filters" that remove all particles above .3 microns from a slow stream of air. Most clean rooms use their filters simply to clean up incoming air. Whitfield's trick is to make the clean air from the filters keep the room clean. It flows at 1 m.p.h. (a very faint breeze) across the workbench and past the people working...
...fight if the Russians nudge too hard in the corridors. U.S. jet fighters, armed with Sidewinder missiles, recently have been aloft at the Western end of the Berlin air lanes, ready to reach the scene of trouble in minutes. Giant U.S. C-133 Cargomasters, capable of hauling huge trailer trucks, began practice runs up to West Berlin in case an airlift might soon be needed...
...around a major drawback of the trailer (in most states, the law forbids occupancy while the car is in motion). Dodge division of Chrysler Corp. has produced the "Motor Home," which looks like something between a Greyhound bus and an oversized Volkswagen truck, makes the trailer an integral part of the car, and permits a trailer wife to cook breakfast, take a shower, or snooze, while her helpmate reels off the miles...
...Designed to sell for around $1,600, the Stuart is a boxy but commodious fiber-glass creation driven by a 4-h.p. motor, will hold two adults, two kids, and lots of groceries. It will go 40 miles at a safe-and-sane 35 m.p.h. on its small boat-trailer-size wheels, and its eight 6-volt batteries may be recharged overnight simply by plugging the whole thing into the garage socket. The cost of operation (including depreciation on the car itself) is estimated by Stuart to be around 4? a mile, as opposed to about 8? a mile...
Grinding up Oregon's 12,000-ft. Canyon Creek Pass one recent evening, the drivers of three mammoth trailer trucks stared in astonishment as a Pacific Intermountain Express Co. rig with a huge load and a notably undersized engine compartment blithely pulled past them. Driving the P.I.E. truck was a power plant that marked a long step forward in U.S. engine design; the V8-265 Vine diesel turned out by Cummins Engine. Co. of Columbus, Ind. Built on a new (for diesels) over-square* design, the Vine is as much as 44% smaller and lighter than other comparable diesels...