Seater meter', Automotive Research Laborator
The first Automotive Engineering Laboratory building was completed in 1937. A second building, designed by architect Giffels & Vallet, was completed in 1955 and renamed in honor of Professor Walter E. Lay in 1974.; 
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; "A research special seat (to stimulate an automobile seat) built to research comfort factors for average size people. Picture taken about 1935-1940. Person in seat was Eileen Lay, daughter of Prof. Lay." (Source: Jay A. Bolt, Oct. 20, 1990).
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