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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
FUEL SENSATION.
Exhaust Gases Made Harmless,
INGENIOUS DEVICE.
Three developments of the petrol motor (pronounced by recognized authorities in America and other countries to be Impossible of achievement) were announced re- cently at the Engineers' Club Philadelphia.
Details were given to an audi- enco of technicians, by dir. J. A. Queeney, vice-president of the Mitten Management, the official title of the company which owna' the local tram, bus, and taxicab services.
SATURDAY MAY 11, 1929.
PAVED ROAD CONQUERS DESERT.
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This part of the modern road across the Arizona desert shows how engineers making motor travel coay oven in this part of the world. Note what the shifting sand has done to the old board read at loft,
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Finally Paved highway across the to beat the desert's sand. Road-movement. trencherous, shifting sands around ways would disappear to leave chosen was the construction of a Yuma, Arizona, has ended one of hapless autoists facing death rogular paved highway across the the last hard battles of the.from thirst or starvation.
shifting sanda-but, bulit up on automobilist the saf travuroing A single-track plank road was aand fills to be as high as the of desert wastes,
built across the sand. duno aren 30-foot dunes.
The developments are the re- suits of over two years' experl- ments and research work in the company's workshops by its en- gineers, in collaboration with Mr. Ernest Godward, a New Zealand inventor, and Mr. John G. Mac- Cormack, a New York engineer.
It is claimed that they permit the effective substitution of fuel- After two years of use, with over 12 years ago. This was “an Oil was used to bind and an- ail for petrol, with equal starting out trouble in maintenance and improvement, but after every! facility, the absolute elimination delay to traille, the California storm forces of men had to ho chor the high annd dils for the of carbon accumulation and of State Highway Commission an used to dig the planking out from new road. And the routing was immense importance to the genounces that this paved highway under the sand and then string made with an eye to avoiding the eral public control of the deadly once considered an impossibil- the plank across the new level higher dunes with their alower caused by the newly formed dunes but none-the-less certain move carbon-monoxide in the emanation ity-is a thorough success from the exhaust pipe by the re-
Great sand dunes, shifting in in their inexorable manch at the all directions at the whim of the bidding of the wind.
After two years of operation duction to a negligible point,
winds, long have been a menace Plans for controlling the shift- under E. Q. Bullivan, the high- to wayfarers in the desert region.ing of the sand dunes were con- way between San Diego and Yuma Spring and fall especially would sidored, as were other projects for has proven the plan feasible. The see windstorms obliterate trails, a more feasible desert thorough smaller sand dunes, driven up to maroon travellers and often cause fare. Study showed the fast-move the highway by the wind, quickly death as well as suffering,
ing dunes were those under 30 whisk across the smooth” pave-". Tests by the United States Bur- Early automobile parties met foot high, with the 200-foot hills ment, leaving it open to traflo eau of Mines show that the per-with tragic experiences in trying having an almost imperceptible at all times. centage of carbon-monoxide emit- ted by the majority of cars when the motors are in good condition is between 5 and 9 per cent. Many machines give from 10 to 12 per
More Power. Incidentally, the horse-power is increased to 15 per cent. above the thator's original, maximum.
cent.
Therefore, as Mr. Queeney said, The cup is heated by the exhaust Philadelphia would be the first from the engine. Fuel is drawn A standard carburetter "ungassed" city in the world since from motor vehicles came into general through the inside of the cup and use, at least as far as its 600 in over the surface of the warm terurban buses and over 3,000 plates, which convert it into dry taxis are concerned..
The apparatus, Mr. Queeney said, could be used either for fuel all or petrol or a combination of both without any adjustment.
Just what the Philadelphia achievement means may be judged by the fact that a number of own- cra and chauffeurs in the United Mr. Queeney estimates the sav- States have died from asphyxia-ing of fuel alone-if the device tion through working in closed were adopted for the 85,000 mo- Harages on cars with the motora tor-buses now operating in the running.
United States-would be £10,000,- 900 annually.
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OWN TRAFFIC POLICE.
Using a machine designed In Los Angeles, pedestrians act na their own traffic police. On push- ing a button, a light stops traffic for 15 seconds, after which it au- tomatically reverses the traffic for 25 seconds.
BIG ROAD PLAN. Mr. Queeney, In reply to another question, said he saw no reason
More than $250,000,000 is the why the invention should not be cost estimated for Argentina's applied to boat and aircraft mo- contemplated road-building pro- tora with equally valuable results. gramme, according to the Cal- I have personal knowledge that forgia State Automobile Associa the officluls of a certain wide- tion. awake military establishment, hav-
such discomfort to the occupants Asked what the substitution of vehicles and pedestrains in crowded thorough-fares, especial-had actually meant to his com- ly when the traffic is at a stand-pany, he admitted a maximum sav- still, is a nuisance which the at-ing of £10 per bus per month.
The device, as he explained it, ing learned indirectly about the Army equipment, from field kit- thorities have been hitherto help-consists of an aluminium cup a device, requested to be furnished chens to tanks, and offered to pay
which is a best of stationary plates with plans, for its application to all expenseN.
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