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SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931.
"VAPOUR LOCK."
Research Reveals Ways of Preventing..
USEFUL HINTS.
-By-Isruel-Kloin.)-
Completion of a detailed inves- 1 tigation Into the mysteries of "yanor Jock" by two research engi neers of the U. S. Bureau of Stand- ards may be of interest to the mo torist, especially since their find ings give the causes for this fre quent, summer trouble and point out various ways of preventing It.
These scientists, Oscar C. Bridge- men and Hobart S. White, reported:
Lincoln
THE NEW LINCOLN SPORT PHAETON.
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their work at the recent meeting of A new sport phaetonTM has been] vertible, having no over-hanging-ample foot room at the side of the Society of Automotive Engi- developed on
Ample the new Lincoln The windshield stanchions and the accelerator pedal. neers at White Sulphur Springs. 145-inch free-wheeling chassis, glass are stationary.
entrance room is provided. As a result, future automobiles may the
Motor Company The new door glasses, instead sent is adjustable so as to assure Low-alung and of being of the usual type which the driver complète comfort. incorporate their suggestions for announces. improvements, especially in the fuel rakish, this new open sport type slide up and down, are shaped metal tray back of the driver' Herment of A circle. seat is used for storage of storm The system, so as to avoid this dif-is expected to be a familiar sight like
around country clubs and fashion-Operated by a regulator, they curtains.
When itculty henceforth.
The tonnen la unusually room. able beach and mountain, resorts open and close like a fan. While we are driving around in during the summer. Two develop lowered they are concealed by the The rear seat has a centro fold- ments of this type have been body moulding cowl is counter with pewter, for stowing any ing arm rest. A cabinet inlaid cars that become subject to vapor made, one with, the other without|
The tonneau balanced. X remote
control small articles is recessed into the lock, however, we should at least
tonneau cowl,
Access be apprised of the
In general lines, the new car in handle operates the spring lock back of the front seat. smart in appearance, with a top which holds it in place. A fold- to it is provided by a door fitted cures for this trouble
of new design and new type winding windshield with metal-bound on each side of a centre panel in which a cigar lighter, tonneau deflector glasses to carry out its wind deflectors is provided. note of freshness. The top ends The front seat is especially light and switch are fitted. A above the windshield, like a can-roomy. The cowl is wide, allow-metal robe rail is provided.
enses and
Bridgeman and White define vapor lock as "boiling of gaso- line in the fuel feed system caus- ing interruption of fuel flow with and the efficiency resultant engine stoppage."
Since gasolines are now being re-
creased.
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steep,
of the fuel in- the air stream, mid further assur-mountains. Climbing any
ing a cool pump by insulating it long incline will raise the tempera- from the radiant heat of the en-tare of the fuel in the foed Une and will cause the same stalling trouble that speeding steadily at 40 miles an hour on the level will.
fined with higher vapor pressare,Į In redesigning the fuel feed nya-gine. In response to the demand for such tem, the two U. S. engineers Bug- it is expected that these sugges- faster running engines, vapor lock geat running the fuel line along the tions will soon be takes up by the has become a particularly anung outside of the frame channel,automobile manufacturers and will ing problem, For it is pointed rather than inside. This will re-bring about considerable improve fout that the higher the vapor duce the temperature of the gaso-ment in the 1932 cors,
pressure of the gasoline, the lower line in the line by more than half,
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the, temperature at which both at high speed and in idling boiling comniences.
after a speed run, and it would
Fuel engineers have been trying therefore reduce considerably the motorist to to find a compromise by which va Fendency toward stalling from va design and be prepared for
The only cure for this trouble. when it occurs, is to shut off the motor and wait a while until the fuel has cooled all somewhat. Mennwhile, it is best for the A temporary means to provent consider present vapor Jock is to put a sheet of as-
such bestos between the engine and the, trouble as vaper lock. This comes fuel pump or vacuum tank and to or lock. por pressure may be kept low ant
particularly in warm weather and cover the fuel feed line, especially the furi still answer the demand:
front of the chassis Besides this major change, they of the modern engine. But a rea
dvise insulating the fuel feed lina at higher attitudes where the tem- along the help toward solution of the probgainst the heat of the engine, re-perature at which boiling vecurs is frame, with asbestos. lem of vupor lock will come in reducing the heat conduction from lower than at sea level.
Trust A Thornycroft With Your TranSPORT designing the entire fuel feel sys-the engine in the fuel pump by find- Motorists who are used to driving
EASY FOR THIEVES.
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tem in such a way that the vaporing a more suitable location for the jat low levels should remember this pressure of gasoline may be raised pump such that it will be cooled by when
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