An experimental method and apparatus were developed to measure local heat transfer distributions on moving and stationary plates. The apparatus can be used to study the effect of surface motion where a flat plate geometry is important. Such cases arise when different heat transfer regimes, such as single-phase forced convection, nucleate boiling, and film boiling, occur in close proximity on moving strips and plates cooled by planar liquid jets. In these cases, surface motion is either in or opposite to the flow direction. Versatility is an important feature of the apparatus because both moving and stationary plates can be considered. Surface temperatures of a test specimen were measured and used with a numerical solution of the energy equation for the specimen to determine local heat transfer coefficients in the vicinity of a planar jet. Experimentes were performed for plate speeds less than one-half of the impingement velocity. For single phase forced convection, heat transfer coefficients near the stagnation point were not appreciably affected by surface motion. In addition, transition to a turbulent boundary layer was delayed when the surface motion was in the flow direction. In nucleate boiling, the peak heat transfer coefficient was shifted in the direction opposite to the plate motion where surface temperatures were higher.