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1 brake performance, how the vehicle stopped, how the Page 2859 2 driver perceived how the vehicle stopped. 3 Q Okay. After your research on that subject, 4 did you continue to be involved in research involving 5 friction materials? 6 A Oh, yes. 7 Q Okay. Could youtell the jury something 8 about that research? 9 A Well, there was a substantial quality 10 control problem on some brake linings and -- at the 11 end of 1963, and the scientific lab of the Ford Motor 12 Company was requesting, I think in early '64, to see 13 what could be done. 14 So the three major departments of research 15 started in early of '64, February or March, to see 16 what could be done to improve quality of brake 17 linings, and that program became a very major 18 program. 19 Q Okay. Just so we are clear, did Ford at 20 that time manufacture its own brake linings? 21 A Ford never manufactured brake linings or