Free Whistle (if you answer the Q's correctly...)

gdfster

Successive generations have continued the same philosophy of craftsmanship using the best traditional materials. Last year, we needed over 560 miles of brass strip for production

gdfster

The bestseller remains the Acme Thunderer with the cork ball, a whistle that is present at every sports event worldwide. The total weight of the yearly use of cork balls by the company averages around 400 kilograms.

hb1444

Question 6: 560 miles (I typed it in the search engine)

WELSH-DRAGON_2

Just a thought, isn't this a competition rather than a freebie so therefore better placed on the competition board ?

quoia

gdfster wrote:

The bestseller remains the Acme Thunderer with the cork ball, a whistle that is present at every sports event worldwide. The total weight of the yearly use of cork balls by the company averages around 400 kilograms.

gdfster wrote:

Successive generations have continued the same philosophy of craftsmanship using the best traditional materials. Last year, we needed over 560 miles of brass strip for production

Can you post the URLs or provide links to this information please ?

My searches have failed to find these and I don't understand why.
Hopefully I can get to the bottom of this when I have the destination pages.

TIA

redcar_2

Me too quoia I feel cheated too!!! gdfster where did you find those words!!! I can't see them or search them and feel I have read enough of that website to do acme whistles as a specialist subject on mastermind now!!

BTW just to confirm my growing paranoia to you all, is anyone havig doubts about that 800m per hour answer - I mean the pea (or as we all now know cork ball! ) in a whistle seems to move quite a bit, but half a mile an hour is a snails pace! I don't wish to demonstrate but I'm guessing with a suitable straw you could blow / propell a cork ball further than half a mile in an hour...? Anyone?

Off now to put the answers in and if I don't get one of the free whistles there'll be a shriek louder than one of those b***** thunderers! ;o)

quoia

redcar wrote:

BTW just to confirm my growing paranoia to you all, is anyone havig doubts about that 800m per hour answer - I mean the pea (or as we all now know cork ball! ) in a whistle seems to move quite a bit, but half a mile an hour is a snails pace! I don't wish to demonstrate but I'm guessing with a suitable straw you could blow / propell a cork ball further than half a mile in an hour...? Anyone?

I know what you mean but the straw and blowing bit is really an aside to the issue.

The maths probably make a bit more sense.

800m per hour is 800,000 millimetres in 3600 seconds.
This equates to 222.22222222222222 mm per second
or for those of you like me that finds it easier to picture that in something that makes more sense 8.75 inches

Now, not knowing the following 2 dimensions make the next bit tricky, but the pea has to roll around the inside of the whistle chamber. If the pea is about the size of a pea (a real one) 0.25 inch diameter and the chamber is 0.5 inch diameter, then the centre of the pea describes a circle of 0.25 inch diameter.
In 1 revolution the pea would travel 0.25 x Pi = approximately 0.78 inch

To travel 8.75 inches in 1 second it would have to roll round the inside of the chamber just over 11 times in that 1 second.

I'd say that figure is probably in the right sort of ball park area.

If you were to consider the other 2 options other than 0.5mph (800m/h) of 1.25mph & 2.36 mph, then the revolutions become 28 rps or 53 rps respectively - both of which I have a gut feeling are a little on the high side.

HTH

gdfster

tbh there was a thread someone else found em eventually after googling but didnt post links. i decided to post anyway without links

redcar_2

Wow thanks for that explanation quoia - it does make more sense now!

Gfdster - just jealousy really that you found them!

Just wondering if this is on a different thread too whether the company will get over run with responses. Hope they have some left. :whistle: :whistle: :whistle: :whistle:

tomandkath

1.c
2.b
3.c
4.b
5.a (I'll go along with the majority here))
6.c (cos you're cleverer than me )
7.c (ditto)
8.c
9.b
10.c
11. I was sure it was b but others say c. Why?There's a book to buy about 130 years of company.
12.c (but can't spot it anywhere)
13.a
14.c
15.b

I've now spent ages on the internet trying to find the answers. I'm determined to win a whistle, but no longer remember why I wanted one in the first place! I'm sure the answers I've put are right and would be grateful for answers for the others. No wild guesses though, there's a whistle at stake afterall!
Phew, I hope there's still a whistle left!!