Masonry Magazine March 1968 Page. 32
Good Tips On Bad Weather Driving
Good Tips On Bad Weather Driving (continued from page 24) up your automotive know-how before the first snow falls. If you're not sure of what to do in bad weather situations, here's a quickie quiz, prepared and researched by The Men Who Know Tires Best, your independent tire dealer. Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer.
1. If you're going 20 m.p.h. on glare ice, what's your stopping distance? (a) 151 feet (b) 161 feet (c) 171 feet
2. When is driving in the rain most critical? (a) during the first 1/2 hours (b) after the first 1/2 hours (c) after the rain is over
3. What is best for driving out of a snow bank? (a) keeping the car in low gear (b) rocking fore and back to get traction (c) melting snow by spinning tires
4. When it is more advisable to ride on a flat to stop? (a) when it's raining (b) when the tire's been punctured by a nail (c) when there's no escape shoulder on a high-speed highway
5. What's the best way of checking tire treads yourself? (a) with a penny (b) with a magnifying glass (c) with a tape measure
6. If the edges are feathered on the side of each tread on your tires (a) your air pressure is too high (b) your air pressure is too low (c) front wheels may be out of alignment
7. Driving conditions are most hazardous on wet or icy roads at (a) zero degrees (b) 32 degrees (c) 38 degrees
8. Tires should be rotated (a) every 5,000 miles (b) every 10,000 miles (c) every 15,000 miles
9. Retread tires can be driven (a) only under 40 miles an hour (b) only under 50 miles an hour (c) at any safe speed
10. If you should go into a skid (a) try to steer in the direction of the skid and use a stab and release brake pattern (b) jam on the brakes and try to stop short (c) race the motor until the tires "grab"
For the correct answers to the above 10 questions see the third column this page.
Colorful Office Structure
What may well be one of the most colorful office buildings ever erected in Manhattan is now rising majestically on the easterly blockfront of Third Avenue, between 54th and 55th Streets.
The 32-story tower at 909 Third Avenue, which is being built at a cost of $35 million by Tishman Realty & Construction Co., Inc., is utilizing a process that for the first time makes it possible to custom color mortar cement to any architectural specifications. Mason Contractor is Morris Rosen & Sons, The Bronx, New York.
As a result, the exterior of the building's five-story windowless base, which will house the FDR post office station, will be a unique composite of colorful brick and mortar designed specifically to complement each other. The Third Avenue facade, for example, will be glazed green cast brick set against a special olive green mortar joint. The sides and rear will feature a deep red burgundy brick contrasted against a charcoal brown mortar joint. A third color of mortar-grey is being used inside the building.
A significant aspect of the construction work, however, is the use of custom tinted mortar created by the Instant Crete Corporation of New York, Inc.
Instant Crete colored mortar is produced under the same process developed by the company several years ago to manufacture preblended mortar mix. The process, which is considered the first major breakthrough in on-site masonry construction techniques in the postwar period and has already been used on over a billion dollars worth of new construction, consists of blending quality controlled mortar (continued on page 34) masonry March, 1968
Bearing Wall Seminar
In spite of a snow storm of near blizzard proportion, the Masonry Industry Promotion Fund of Toledo, Ohio, held their "Masonry Bearing Wall Seminar" on Tuesday, March 12th, at the Commodore Perry Motor Hotel, with an excellent turnout of architects and engineers in attendance.
Featured speakers for the Seminar were: Henry Toennies, Director of Engineering. National Concrete Masonry Association; James Gross, Director of Engineering. Structural Clay Products Institute and Richard Gensert, R.M. Gensert Associates. Robert Storer, S.A. Storer & Sons, coordinated the various details for the meeting.
100th Producer Signed
Architectural Concrete Corp., Milwaukee, Wis., has been signed as the 100th producer of the Portland Cement Association's Uniframe concrete building system. Uniframe is a pre-engineered all-concrete building designed for farm, commercial, and light industrial uses. It is currently being marketed by concrete producers in 32 states and 5 Canadian provinces.
Join Patent Scaffolding
Oury Engineering Company. Elmhurst, Ill., manufacturers of BELT-CRETE conveyor systems, will become a subdivision of Patent Scaffolding Co., Division of Harsco Corporation, Long Island City, N.Y. under terms of a tentative agreement announced by J. T. Simpson, president of Harsco.
The transaction, under which Harsco assumes the business and assets of Oury, was consummated on February 28, 1968, subject to the approval of Oury's stockholders.
Good Tips on Bad Weather Driving
ANSWERS
1. (b)
2. (a) During the first 12 hour when the rain mixes with oil from the road to create a slick condition.
3. (b) Use your motor from low to reverse to get enough traction from a rocking motion to get out of the snow bank.
4. (c) When there's no escape shoulder on a high-speed highway.
5. (a) Using a penny, insert it into the tire treads. If the tread is worn you'll be able to see Lincoln's head.
6. (c)
7. (b)
8. (a) The National Tire Dealers & Retreaders Association suggests you rotate the tires every 5,000 miles.
9. (c) Retread tires are fine at any safe speed.
10. (a)
SCORE
10 right-Expert
8-9 right-Good
6-7 right-Fair
4-5 right-Take instruction
0-3 right-Dangerous driver