Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
FEW CHANGES IN
1871 AUTO MODELS
Authority on Motor Car Con-
struCtion Tells What He
Observed at Exhibit
FREAKS ABSENT FROM SHOW
Dr.. Snyder Writes That Improve
ments Are Being Made Along
Conventional Lines
FREAKS ABSENT FROM SHOW

written expressly for The Herald by Or.
Charles w. Snyder, the nationally known tech
nical expert on automobles.l
It's only few years ago when Il
man went to the automobile show, eX-
pecting to see vast changes in design
and construction of every line of cars
exhibited. Today things are different.
A careful inspection of all the models
exhibited this week by the Los Angeles
Motor Dealers association at the Shrine
auditorium does not show a single
freak or in fact anything varying wide-
ly from what may be considered as
conventional. This Is certain IN
dication that the motor car industry Is
becoming established on firm basis
and that manufacturers recognize the
fact that their cars cannot be improved
by any radical change, but that such
improvement must be along refinement
in detail, eliminating unnecessary parts
and bettering the quality.
Many of the 1911 models shown are
almost identical with those OF 1910,
some varying only in outward appear
ance.
Judging from this exhibition one can
assume that the four-cylinder engine Is
holding it's position as the most de-
sirable type, in spite OF the numerous
predictions made few years ago that
off the earth.
The motor with the bore and stroke
about equal seems to remain popular
though several have increased the
stroke, making 1t very small per cent
greater than the bore. No long stroke
engines, however, aref shown and the
Kissel Kar company is exhibiting one
motor in which the stroke is less than
the bore.
L or T head engines predominate'
though a couple of designs are shown
with valves in the cylinder head.
EXCEPTIONS TO TRANsMIssIONs
The transmissions are, as a rule
three speed and reverse, select1ve, a
few progressive and one friction being
the exceptions.
The multiple disk clutch predomi-
mates, but they are Increasing in dla-
meter, and there seems to be a greater
tendency to run them in OIL
Practically all cars, excepting the
Petrol, are shaft driven. The water
circulation is gear driven pump, and
the ignition almost universally is mag
neto and batteries.
One of the most noticeable changes
is found in the various oiling systems.
The old multi-feed oiler with dozen
or twenty pipes leading to every bear
ing, seems to be a thing of the past.
In the early days of the automobile,
splash was the universal method or
fabrication, and 1t gave good satisfac-
tion, but there seemed to be no salts
factory method for feeding the oil to
the crank case, as it was used at the
present time, the oil reservoir beneath
the crank case, with q positive pump
continually flooding the case, and
the necessary provision made for TAX
ing care of the overflow. All the good
qualities of the splash are retained and
the defects overcome.
NEW OIL PUMP SHOWN
The Kissel Kar shows one of the
crank case oiler reservoirs with a gear
driven oil pump, somewhat out or the
ordinary. The oil is forced contlnu-
ously from the reservoir to the crank
case, the overflow being returned TO
the reservoirs, but in this instance
there is an adjustment provided, To-
Gated at the side of the crank case and
easily reached, which allows the driver
to maintain the oil level at any point
desired.
The expanding brake on this car is
peculiar There are two arms In the
rear break driver, one in front ana
the other at the rear, so arranged tnat
the breaking ring is expanded in sucn
a manner that this ring presses against
the drum evenly at all points. This
is an excellent arrangement, as 1t gives
increased brake efficiency.
The new six-cylinder Ktssel Kar has
a four speed forward transmission,
driving direct on the third with the
fourth as a multiple"
Carrigan Brothers, in the Pratt-Elk-
hart, are showing transmission en-
tirely new. 1t has the effect of third
speed forward and reverse sliding gear,
driving direct on the high, but theirs
are no gears that slide. The drive SHAFT
and it's driving gear, together with the
Jack shaft assembly, are arranged IN
the usual manner, but the gears are
all fixed on the shafts There are
four separate jaw clutches, the jaws
being of stepped construction, which
slide on the shafts, there being a sep
arate clutch for each speed. With
these Jaw clutches the different speeds
gears always running in mesh-are
picked up as required in the same
manner as is ordinarily used in the
high. If these individual clutches stand
ND to their work-and there is no rea-
son why they shouldn't-this will
prove one of the best of the gear COM
binations. The only possible objection
is that the gears are always running in
mesh, but as the drive is direct on the
high, these rotating gears, running idle,
and in oil, should not wear. f. q s.
annular ball bearings are used in this
transmission.