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FUEL MAY INFLUENCE DESIGN.

CARS WITH DIESEL ENGINES.

Prominent American's Belief.

The next generation will see a economical and yet more efficient decided change in, motoring de- than the motor of yesterday. eign, if tho word of Dr. A. 0;

That, howovor, is only the be- Fieldnor, director of the Pitts- ginning. Dr. Fieldner looks for- burgh experiment station of the ward to the time when we will U. S bureau of minor, is to bo have to depend on other than our accepted.

gasolino resources, when an on- tirely now fuel may revolutionize. the design of our motor cars.

DIESEL MAY COME IN.

This change will come as a re- sult of an innovation in the use of fuel for motoring.

For the next 10 years or 80, Dr. Fieldner believes, wo will bo Of course the enormous stock able to go ahead with our present of coal will furnish us with a resources, depending on gasoline large supply of gasoline from the for fuel. But soon thereafter the heat treatment of this mineral, oil supply will drop so that pro. But oven this will gradually de- duotion from this source won't cline, while other processes of be great enough to satisfy the making the car go will be intra- domand.

Thon will come the innovations new fuels and decided improve monts, or radical changes, in motors to accommodate the now

fuels."

IMPROVEMENTS ON WAY.

duced.

The Diesel is being perfected to a point where engineers already see ils availability for automotive power. Thus a new motor wil! go under the hood, crude oil will ha tha motive power, cheap and Engineers already are working highly efficient. toward this contingency. They The steam car may return to have perfected the process of popularity under these conditions, cracking so as to got bettor gaso- Fieldner belioves, and we may line from the crude petroleum, oven see the improvement of the and this better gasoline has an electric storage battery to a point abled the design of a smaller type, of smallness and efficiency, that higher speed engine.

will make the electric car 'a greater possibility,

Chemists have produced anti- knock compounds which not only A Gorman manufacturor has increase the efficiency of our Diesel ongino using powdered gasoline by as high as 40 por coal for fuel, a now possibility in cent, but also enable the further the automotive world. Wood is reduction of engine displacement being burned in a test truck in and increase of speed and power. France, and there is also the The result is that even to-day availability of coke and charcoal we have an engine far more for the same use.

Despite the improvement of gasoline for automotive fuck, Dr. A. C Frøldner, above, head of the Pittsburgh experi- meni station of the U. S. bureau of wines, sees decided changes in motor design with the decrease in the supply of this fuel.

LURE OF HIGH SPEED.

.Confessions of Two Famous Drivers.

car.

FOR HIGHER EFFICIENCY,

"The present average compres sion ratio of all motore sold in the United States is 4.1 to 1, etates Dr. Fieldner. "The best anti-knock cracked gasolines are Buitable for a compression ratio of 5.5 to 1 or more.

"As anti-knock fuels becofae more generally available, manu- facturers of motor cars will in- crease compression ratios from, year to year to a figure probably not exceeding to 1. These higher compression ratios should result in eventually doubling the mileage per gallon of gasoline.

"Motor car manufacturers aro' aiding also in decreasing tho fuel, required por car mila by more efficient carburetor design and other changes in engine de- sign, such as the Ricardo type of cylinder head, which reduces de- tonating tendencies.

"And, of course, the small light car, such as is used in Europe, must eventually come when the fuel shortage greatly increases the price of motor fuel."

i have cost him the greater part of

the £5,000.

He is making the attempt, so he says just because he hus always had an ambition to travel at three miles a minuto.."

Major Begrave, an. old Etonian and still in the twenties, is in- fluenced much in the same way. In the near future, Captain The racing side of motoring is Malcolm Campbell will attempt his hobby and not a means of to reach a speed of 180 miles an livelihood. His actual occupa- hour, or three miles a minute, in tion is technical adviser to a his now 450-h.p. Napier Campbell great firm of car makere His reasons for risking such an ad- During February Major H. O. venture are quite logical. D. Segrave is to try to exceed a

Why does anyone try to rụn spoed of 200 miles an hour in the 100 yards faster than an- his new 1,000-h.p. Sunbeam car. other?" he asks, "And, having If either succeeds he will have done so, does the world at large travelled faster than any other benefit? Why do people risk. human beings have over travelled their lives on the Crosta run? on land.

"Even if our endeavours do not The most insistont questión help the development of motor both drivers have boen asked cars, which I do not admit, they since the announcements are surely reasonable." .

Why do you do it ?"

The car and accessory man- It is a reasonable question.ufacturers admit quite frankly Such delirious speeds can only that they encourage

such

bo achieved at groat risks. And achievements for publicity. To if the driver is successful, does the ordinary car owner, chugging the achievement add anything to along the road at a modost 30 the sum total of human know-miles an hour, the fact that his lodge or benefit the world?

tyres and other components of With Capt. Campbell high- his motor-car have been bred speed motoring has always been from materials that have stood a hobby. As a youngster he was up to the terrific grualling of such left a legacy which, if he so de-high speeds cannot fail to imbue sired, made it unnecessary for him with a cortain amount of

confidence. him to earn a living.

In their attempts to build thesS He entered the motoring busi-giants often at great coat, the nass because he loved motor-cars. makers learn many things about There is no pocuniary gain for metal strains and stressos and him in the present venture. In other problems which do not fact, he is already about £5,000 occur when a oar is built for out of pocket, and even if he is normal uses.

successful he cannot expect to Recently, one firm expended rocoup himself. Having dono its £20,000 to build a car for record job, the car will bo white breaking ovents. And the benefits elephant-useless for other pur-they derive from those lessons are poses, His minute or so of thrills passed on to us in the shape of! while he makes the attempt will better and safer motor-cars.

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TRACTORS POPU- LAR

A Variety of Uses.

FEBRUARY 12, 1927*

of the International. Harrester Co. He pointed out that the balance of the tractor industry is maintained by commercial adop. tion of this vehicle and not by the farm demand.

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The popularity of the industrial tractor is inóroaning in eVORT branch of the lumber industry. From the camps to the final de- livery of the finished product, the traetor has an important role, Of the different industrial ap In the coal, industry, at the The stoudily increasing_use of plications of the tractor, road minos, on the loading-dooks, in the tractor in commercial work building and maintenance olan yarda, for plant coal-piles, and has boon tho stabilizing factor in a good share of the units. They often for delivering coal to ous- the tractor industry, according to are used in the highway depart-tomers, industrial tractore” aro reporta road at the Society of mont of practically ovory stato. proving time, labour and money-' Automotive Engineers' mooting One small district of Missouri savors. recently held at Chicago.

operates 22 tractors, while Cali- "Crop fluctuations often affect fornia has recently purchased | tractor sales, but only to a minor 105 valloles of different typos for degree, reported William Parrish, rond work.

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