SAE Members Get Special Tour of Bonneville Salt Flats

    WARRENDALE, Pa., Aug. 8 Twenty-seven Society of Automotive
Engineers (SAE International) members will get a special tour of the
Bonneville Salt Flats at the beginning of Speed Week, August 11-13.
    The members come from nine states and represent a wide range of automotive
industry engineers.  SAE is an 80,000-member society headquartered in
Warrendale, PA, near Pittsburgh.  The Society develops standards for the
automotive industry and provides information on latest automotive technology
as well as providing forums for exchange of technical information and
publishes books and magazines on automotive subjects.  SAE also has an active
Motorsports unit that sponsors a biennial technical meeting and other
activities.
    The tour was arranged by the Society's Sections Business Unit.  On their
arrival on Saturday, August 11, the group will hear a presentation of "Boys,
Toys and Noise" by Louise Ann Noeth, historian, photographer and author of
"The Bonneville Salt Flats."  The group will meet Sunday, August 12 to tour
the Salt Flats facilities.  On Monday, August 13, they will witness time
trials and on-site activities.
    That evening, Glynne Bowsher, mechanical engineer for the Thrust SCC, the
world's fastest car, will give a technical presentation, and Louise Ann Noeth
will narrate a slide show on the 1997 American and British World Land Speed
Record attempts.

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