Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The rating and testing of stock model goods in accordance with standard test codes
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 40, no. 4-5, Apr-May 1968, pp. 87-93
- Description
Paper No.2362, submitted by the authors on 11th April, 1967.
Mr, W. F. Baillie, AMIEAust, is Tractor Testing Officer, and Mr. G.H. Vasey, BCE MIEAust, is Reader-in-Charge, both in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Melbourne.- Abstract
Technical principles underlying the formal testing of stock model goods are defined. Though special reference is made to the testing of agricultural tractors, it is shown that these principles are of wider application, and are basic in all Standards work. The roles of the vendor and the purchaser, and the special role of independent testing authorities are made clear; the limitations and difficulties of tests on single selected samples of a variable product are discussed. The correct relation of formal testing to the rating of stock model goods is also outlined.
In Part II, current overseas practice in the public testing of agricultural tractors is critically reviewed in the light of these principles.
It is shown that these tests amount, in effect, to official endorsement of a sample submitted by the manufacturer. Overseas authorities rationalise this procedure by the proposition that different models of a given class of a variable product may best be compared on the basis of the selected best of each. This is rejected as being contrary to the logic and the practice of standardisation in the rating and testing of all other goods and materials.
Ways in which the rating and testing of tractors might be restored to a more normal position in standards procedures are suggested.