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j t t LIA15574 LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, INC. ass Ma d is o n a v in u i V. MM VOWK IT, M. V. lud of a paper delivered for Barry B. Stuart, PresidNit, Stuart Motors, Inc., of lalinaaoo, ( MUw d I by Bruce hte, LZ& Staff ) TelogrM free lb-. Stuart, raoalvad Moo4ky aocnlags pprsreT ID SXJ ATOK wnw |QEX OW ARCCMD US CLOCX IH liST UBX, TOXCU STILL otmci t o saw. aow sonnaorm BURT STOUT s t o u t aeons, sc. I m vary sorry that you will art hart the ctunoe to seet Barry Stuart Masai f or to see tho bo w sutonobllo ba has designed and built. It Is a rwirlriM > ear. And this la to bo ejpeeted because lb-. Stuart la a ranarfcabla young awn. Long before the current "ooapaot* erase cane into being, Barry Stuart was convinced that aaall cars were that the people wanted. Be had an agency to sell the KrgUsh uadi ford Anglia. And he did eery well at it. So well. In fact, that ha beceae the large at distributor In the Ststa of Michigan. Wmb be was not given a franchise to eeU tho ford Paloon, he first looked into other Mall foreign cars and, not being satisfied with the possibilities, decided to build a car hi seal f. The result was ths Stuart Hectria. Ha lllots to point out that It la the first herlnelly new ctr designed and built In ths United States for several decades. Whet is It HkeT Well, there Is a picture and description of It on one of the bulletin boards at the antranoa to this ran. JlM nigsitns has dsserlhad It this weyi Presented at the 54th Anraal Meeting, Lead Industries Association, Ins. St. Louis, Mo. April 11-12, 1963 mump eia sasiis rasawws^nsMrarawwek iassasaaw a ws  ir-- 111--.WLW WWIWIWWPIPW--WBWWWi^WWHI HHU i. LWIII |IH il. ,.il il f3 __ LIIAA115555775 -T -^-r^ni^WiiffltTrtir r^-SIMT -:-- - w-aa-.L- Bury V. Stuai* Dsslgned to Mil for around $1600, tbs Stuart Is Wv but ssssodiu* fibertlsss creation driven by * four horM power actor, will bold two a(tilts, two kids, end lots of groceries. It will go 40 allss t s etfe-snd-eane 35 sdlss per hour on Its anall bost-treller-elae wheels, and Its eight 6-volt batteries nay be charged overnight riffly bp T^'gl^f tbs tdtols thing Into the garage socket.* Xaeentlally it la cheap, rooagr, reliable trsDaportetloB of the type that will appeal to fanllles wbo hews two or sore ears and to Inlistrial plants, drugstores, plase palaoes and others 6o But aehs deliveries el ninlreq ooet. It would be stretching thirds s bit to say that Mr, Stuart's wish that he has not inoonveninoced your association la anything bat k wish. tat ws forgive his because be la hard at work on an latoreetlag changeover. Zou'U notice that his wire said working fall crew srowid tbs dock" and you nay be surprised to lean that this sllmOt echsdile Is due to a nodal changeover - even though the first nodal has As originally oonoslvsd, the car would bars bad a steal ftw, a plastic body -- and you nay be Interested to know that the bodr la so designed that It partially acta as Its own shipping container and hea precisely the right dimensions so that 24 cars fit neatly Into a box car ... 2 point this out beoeuM the Stuart la not the predict of sl^le tinkering In the garage -- the car also forties 650 potnds of load add batteries and a four horsepower aotor. In the new design now going Into pro&icticn, noet of this descrip tion still applies, but there has been one significant changes then will be no steel frore. the car will be built of plastic end almdmai honsyotad) neterlal of the eort used In nleelles. there le only one other car la the vrerld dilch usee a design approaching this In adroteed engineering and that oar la the Ictus mte. a $5700 sport-racing car built la tagland. Berry Stuart was wllllag to nake such a change right nt tba beginning of hie prediction tun for two reasonsi First, be will be able to nake the car srwiewhat lighter aid can thus ejgiect better olleage and perforaanoe. Seocnd, he feels that this change will erdend tbs ear's uaaful lift fras about ten years to (bout 20 to 25* *bla, of oowrn, nakea the oar a nore attractive proposition trtm a ooet stjc^cist. Son are aware that a oomwnttonal oar costs 9W HMM -v . ..... LI A15576 ..r-. ^^r^r^'tf^ryiir,*Tf^ iv' m u rr^iiiifelii^liiif,^'*3i^^r- --*------ 0UT7 H. Stout -J- boot t to 11 oente par mil* to operate, ladudlng depredation m4 insuranoe. Zbu nay be surprised to loom that tha Stuart ooata only bout 4 oents nils under the aoct conservative kind of coat estlrw ting. fueling the ear -- fraa the alaetrlo aoakot -- ooota lata than 1 out Mile. Another raaaon that ha mi unwilling to atop wale to ecu to oar amual Mooting la that ha la developing a harking of indietrial order* faater than ba anticipated. that la why ha la" working around the dock. Ha eald on the phone that ba haa bau disappointed In ordara froa Individuals. though Intensely interested, Many people fad that tha whole Idea of alaetrlo autcMobllas naeda to ba proved oat -- at laaat In this generation -- and that they dll not buy a new oar of this aofft wit11 they have aaan It and driven it. the problem la understandable. Mr. Stuart'e eolation haa bean to anrmBoa that ba la idlllng to flnaona tha car on a 1/3 dota pqrmeat. -1 Coning back to tha durability and economy of tha new oar. there have been a few minor engineering ohn^aa to be Instituted along with tha "freneleee" construction. Cba of thaaa la tha uee of dne eoatad banWre throughout tha body. As soon u prediction schedules era being net. ba exacts to do away with the eted Wwels and dnmm now ueed and switch to a clno-alwlinai alloy for thaaa. Again, weight saving la a factor elnoe this will radios tha car's weight by Mtodt 75 pounds. But hie main ocuelderation la tha longer Ufa that can ba exacted. What will all this naan In tarns of lead eonaiaptiooT Xha batteries now planned for the Stuart, batteries designed for golf-cart errioe, have a two to three year life. Thus, each Stuart will require about 6$0 pow.de of bsttariee ovary three years. Kov by this tine neid year Mr. Stuart expects to have about 300 to 500 of thaaa ears on tha road. By 1967 he a^ecta that about 10 par cent of the whole passenger car narket -- about 8 or 9 Million cars a year hf than -- will ba of the slaa and type of the Stuart and ha aatiastes that his company dll fill about 10 to 50 per oaflt of that Market with electrise. In addition, there will ba a good foreign narket for electric ears. Mis exs^eny la already a party to tan joint ventures In foreign Markets. These range fran collate aeseably plants and allied Miufecturs to eelea and Maintenance oentara In foreign countries. His opinion is thdt the bulk of these outlets will prefer batteries Made In the Odted St atas. We hope that Stuart Motors la euooeeaful In reaching thaaa goals. xr m m 'wijjjui;i||i .^ui ipp. h i . j j!4MuminL.i