Front Matter

The papers and discussion in this Symposium on Functional Tests for Ball-Bearing Greases were presented at the Eighth Session of the Fifty-first Annual Meeting of the American Society for Testing Materials held in Detroit, Mich., June 23, 1948. The Symposium was sponsored by Technical Committee G on Lubricating Grease of Committee D-2 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants under a special symposium committee consisting of R. C. Adams, U. S. Naval Engineering Experiment Station, Chairman; Marshall Arndeson, General Electric Co.; J. C. Geniesse, Atlantic Refining Co.; O. L. Maag, Timken Roller Bearing Co.; Gus Kaufman, Texas Company (Secretary, Technical Committee G); T. G. Roehner, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc.; and F. L. Wright, Norma-Hoffmann Bearings Corp.