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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on September 09, 2011, 05:25:27 AM

Title: Fun #37 - W.C Keys' Method for Photographing the Jolts of an Automobile
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 09, 2011, 05:25:27 AM
From the early days of motoring.

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Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 13, 2011, 03:24:42 AM
Experts?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 19, 2011, 03:54:56 AM
Pros?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on September 19, 2011, 04:18:52 AM
Is it related to a radio?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 19, 2011, 04:23:03 AM
Quote from: pnegyesi on September 19, 2011, 04:18:52 AM
Is it related to a radio?

No sir
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 19, 2011, 04:25:48 AM
Is the wedge under the car significant for this puzzle?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 19, 2011, 04:28:50 AM
Good eye!

Yes, it is.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 19, 2011, 04:34:17 AM
An early form of traffic abatement?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 19, 2011, 04:54:52 AM
Quote from: Allemano on September 19, 2011, 04:34:17 AM
An early form of traffic abatement?

No sir
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 05:44:45 AM
A closer look at the picture might be in order. 8)
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 28, 2011, 06:01:46 AM
Certain kind of an early light barrier?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 06:39:41 AM
Barrier? No

But something to do with light... yes!
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 28, 2011, 06:59:57 AM
a counter of cars?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 08:17:18 AM
No; something quite different, and about this car, in particular.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 28, 2011, 08:23:10 AM
has it something to do with measurement?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: woodinsight on September 28, 2011, 08:37:00 AM
There appears to be a small light on the front mudguard, connected to the front axle.
Also a cable running from the front to the guy sitting in the back wearing headphones?
Anything to do with testing brake lights?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Ray B. on September 28, 2011, 08:37:35 AM
Are the five white dots part of the system?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 09:15:25 AM
Quote from: Allemano on September 28, 2011, 08:23:10 AM
has it something to do with measurement?

Yes, of a sort...
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 09:16:56 AM
Quote from: woodinsight on September 28, 2011, 08:37:00 AM
There appears to be a small light on the front mudguard, connected to the front axle.
Also a cable running from the front to the guy sitting in the back wearing headphones?
Anything to do with testing brake lights?

The light on the mud guard is well spotted. Nice work!

The guy in the back is not wearing headphones.

Nothing to do with brake lights.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 09:17:32 AM
Quote from: Ray B. on September 28, 2011, 08:37:35 AM
Are the five white dots part of the system?

The white dots serve the same general purpose, and are the key to the solution!
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 28, 2011, 09:21:43 AM
has it something to do with movies?

I see six white spots. two a the wheels center, two at the mudguards (on top of front and rear) and two spots on the passengers (one on the driver's shoulder and one on the rear passenger's head)
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 10:02:14 AM
You are on the beam! Why would somebody want to film those lights on a car?

Locked for Allemano...
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: woodinsight on September 28, 2011, 10:02:54 AM
Something to do with the measurement of movement of the car and passengers as it passes over the hump in the road?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 10:03:27 AM
I had locked this for Allemano... ;)
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: woodinsight on September 28, 2011, 10:05:29 AM
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 10:03:27 AM
I had locked this for Allemano... ;)
No problemo......
My posting missed your post re the lock by a few seconds I guess.....
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 28, 2011, 10:19:57 AM
I know this device rather from modern film making. Lights are used as fix points to help generating virtual movement like in animated films. So, I guess it could be used for early cartoon movies?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 10:52:10 AM
The movement of the lights as the suspension, vehicle and occupants move is indeed filmed.

But not for the purpose of making a cartoon.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 28, 2011, 11:05:20 AM
So it's not for the movie business, but for the car company's engineers? :scratch:

Maybe to test the quality of the suspension & chassis by measuring the movement of the car while passing this wedge?

Oh, now I see, that's what woodinsight said before..
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 28, 2011, 12:50:35 PM
That's it!

Now, can you answer the rest of the puzzle question?

Still locked

Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Allemano on September 30, 2011, 11:57:06 AM
I'm stuck.
Please open it again!
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 30, 2011, 12:22:16 PM
Quote from: Allemano on September 30, 2011, 11:57:06 AM
I'm stuck.
Please open it again!

As you wish - open, sesame!
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on October 12, 2011, 02:22:55 PM
Opening the door in the black hole now
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on October 23, 2011, 05:25:14 AM
Bump
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on October 30, 2011, 11:55:15 AM
Is your puzzle related to this experiment from 1937?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2011, 04:14:18 AM
Quote from: pnegyesi on October 30, 2011, 11:55:15 AM
Is your puzzle related to this experiment from 1937?

Allemano beat you to that conclusion. The rest of the solution is still in play.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on October 31, 2011, 04:21:33 AM
Related to the Chevrolet Knee-Action suspension?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on October 31, 2011, 04:54:25 AM
No, not specifically. And the puzzle pic predates knee-action by some years.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on November 21, 2011, 03:49:30 AM
:bump:  ;)
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on December 18, 2011, 07:53:29 AM
Santa's offering two points for finishing this one off.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on January 06, 2012, 05:54:21 AM
I will award a third point, should it be solved in the next 24 hours.  :)

No clues will be provided.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 13, 2012, 05:49:33 AM
Today only (13 February), I'm repeating this three-point offer.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on February 14, 2012, 05:35:28 AM
Was this a General Motors experiment?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 14, 2012, 05:59:44 AM
The engineer who set up and conducted this experiment worked for a university, and was an member of the Society of Automotive Engineers
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on February 14, 2012, 07:02:50 AM
Was it the University of Michigan?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 14, 2012, 08:08:33 AM
Yes!
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on February 14, 2012, 12:14:32 PM
Was it Walter E Lay?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on February 14, 2012, 01:18:15 PM
No
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on April 19, 2012, 05:20:41 AM
Who will unlock the solution?

Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 09, 2012, 05:36:57 AM
.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on May 22, 2012, 04:27:42 AM
If one stares long enough at Reply #47, perhaps one might decipher the missing parameter of this puzzle.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on September 01, 2012, 07:12:47 AM
John M Nickelsen?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 01, 2012, 08:30:36 AM
No

While the objects in the puzzle clue may contain some nickel, that's getting a bit too molecular.
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on September 01, 2012, 02:03:10 PM
E.W. Weaver? Though I have no idea how to relate it to keys, but he published a nice article in 1929 on automobile suspensions
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 02, 2012, 03:13:52 AM
Not E.W. Weaver?

"Keys" are a direct path to the answer. 
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: pnegyesi on September 02, 2012, 03:35:46 AM
Walter C Keys?
Title: Re: Fun #37
Post by: Otto Puzzell on September 02, 2012, 03:51:05 AM
Finally, it is solved!  :o

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