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1926,
Thero's the carburetor that needs
Prejudices Overcome.
in its experimental stage, But it electret may be the motive power
But the steam car has the advan has the same prospects, If not of automobiles among the many adjustment, cams and camshafts greater, in the field of practical
It's as safe 8. SOURCE OF MOTOR POWER. electrics as the permanent magnet other possibilities it has in the that need timing, gears for the stage of flexibility, of simplicity and
various stages of transmission with ease of control. had in the field of practical future.
clutch and lever to control the any such apparatus could bo and. A discovery just made by a mechanics, when it was invented
Until that stage arrives, there; Imechanism. Attempts are being its only shortcoming le that it has Japanese scientist may be the final back in 1600.
raay still be a transition-perhaps, stage in the perfection of the auto-
from the gasoline to the steam car, made to simplify the transmission, been unable to live down the poor mobile,
The automobile is one of the That sounds surprising since the but nothing of this sort is in eight impression it made when it was That final stage, rany engineers
Under-steam car
first introduced, when it took time once enjoyed greater
yet. agree, will be electric, yet without electret'e" future fields. the bother, little power and short neath hoods of the future may be popularity than it has today, and
This fa, the great argument of to start, effort to control and care
to keep it from blowing up. life afforded by the storage battery devices based on Eguchi's electret. since there, sooms to be little dis- type of electric automobiles to-day replacing with much higher effl-casion over the permanence of the advocates of the steam car who
ciency the gasoline and steam gasoline car,
even go so far as to say that the Now, these fears and prejudices The discovery is a way of pro power plants of to-day.
Modern Inefficient Engine public will return to this source of taken care of, and with more ducing permanent electrielty in what Professor Mototaro Eguchi of The electrot, as crudely shaped But it is a fact that engineers power as a relief from the old, education coupled with the decline the Higher Naval College at Tokyo as it is to-day, has been shown to are not satisfied with gasoline as What's keeping them back is the of gasoline production, the steam calls a "permanent electric." The keep its electric charge, up to a source for motive power in auto availability of gasoline as a source car may come back. permanent electric is to electricity 20,000 volts to, a centimeter of sur-It is highly inefficient in the vari-
But it will be only for the what the permanent magnet is to face, since 1919, when it was first able speed motors essential to auto, of direct power, coupled with, the mechanics.
made, without a loss.
mobiles, and requires many parts popular belief that power direct interval to the time when the por Its possibilities haven't even Thus, somewhat like the per-in the transmission of its power from fuel is better than power in manent electret, or some similar
directly through steam.
electric device, will take its place. been thought of, because it is, still manent magnet, the permanent that offect Its inefficiency.
It was a rather rude awakening for George M. Peck Jr., aged 3, of San Diego, when his father's automobile plunged into the Peck home. The car's drive shaft broke as Mr. and Mrs. Pack roached the top of a hill nearby. The machine, after tearing out a corner timber of the house, stopped astraddle of the baby's bod. But George Jr. was
unhurt.
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FORD OWNERS
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placed, the steering wheel largeter leg room,
are set further back, giving Lowering of the car's center of gravity gives increased readability. The gasoline tank is under the cowl and may be filled without the driver leaving his seat. Coil box and sediment bulb are easily accessible under the engine bonnet.
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