The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-13

which they toured in a National 40-horse
power touring car; good roads were en-
countered as a rule and a most enjoyable
trip through that section well repaid then
for any inconvenience encountered IL
that wild region.
Mortimer Lowry. of this city, leaves to
day for Atlantic City In his 50-horse
power National. He will spend the mex
eight or ten weeks at Atlantic City.
The following sales of National car'
were reported by the F. E. Boland Com
pany, local agents: To T. F. Dunnigan
of Woodbridge; q. j. Geer, of Summit
and to w ]. Quiulan. of Staten Island
each a 50-horsepoBer National touring car
It has been decided by the New Jersey
Automobile and Motor Club to award
certificates to the twelve successful cars
In the late endurance contest, and these
certificates are now being embossed and
will be shortly presented TO the several
winners of the touring and runabou
classes. as mentioned I'm the STAR a week
ago.
1t is a noteworthy fact that In the
I Glidden tour now running more Diamond
tires and Marsh rims are being used than
all other makes of tires and quick de-
tnchable rims combined. In the Wilkes
barre hill climb. the Point Breeze race
meet. the sealed bonnet contest and other
recent automobile meets, Diamond tires
led as to number of cars entered, and
also the equipment Of the winning cars
In every event, In the perfect score cars
of the New Jersey Automobile and Motor
Club three-day run. Diamond tires led to
- = -. ao~N ~zApa than the
nearest competing make.
Gottlieb Daimler is known as the father
of the gas engine. 1t was In the year 1889
that Daimler invented an engine similar In
many respects to the modern automobile
engine. He introduced liquid fuel such as
gasoline and adopted the poppet valve. He
also compressed the charge prior to firing,
thus increasing the speed of the motor and
permitting Of smaller designs for equal
power.
The standard touring car of the future,
20 thinks Mr.. Maxwell, of the Maxwell
Briscoe Motor Company. would be a me-
dunn powered car Of from % to 26-horse-
power. There will undoubtedly always be
2 demand for very high-powered and fast
cars, but for the average man a 24horse-
power Is sufficient for ordinary require
merits. I'm fact" said Mr.. Maxwell,
" horse power In itself is not so much of
a factor, as having a car which Is eff
Client in every sense of the word. The
power losses between the engine and trars-
mission should be reduced to a minimum
and the weight kept down as low as is
consistent with strength"
The difficulty that a motorist meets
with while touring are of two kinds-the
first consisting in the breaking of some
fundamental part where temporary repair
Is out of the question. Such occurrences
are now. however. very rare. The second
and larger cless is that of the temporary
failure of some part OF the machine where
a repair can be readily made. TIL igni-
ticn system of an automobile has probably
given rise to the use of more bad language
and has caused the motorist more worry
than any other. and yet trouble In the ig-
milton system is easy to trace. Mr.. Max
vice: If the ignition system is under sus-
pic1on the first step would be to test the
batteries 8 make sure that they are strong,
then crank the motor slowly and be sure
that each vibrator has its proper buzz. II
the vibrators are working properly, the
difficulty is probably a sooted or dirty plug.
If the vibrators do not buzz, some of the
connections in the primary circuit have
either become broken or loose.
Like every great invention, the automo-
bile engine is a product of many minds.
For as far back as even 1860, an engine was
constructed which failed, largely because
The stumbling blocksto all the early in
%ventors was that they did not realize the
value of COMPRISING the charge prior to
firing.