The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-08
SeIf-StaterS To Be
 Auto Fad Of 1912
Half of This Years Product Will
 Have New Device

Self-starting devices for cylinder fred gasolene motor note cars o,J promise to remark holds true paying due atten- ton to such other fads of motordom as body construction, electric light ing, sleeve motors and the worm drive. It would appear that the press the button automatic car has at last arrived.
 two inherent weak points, 1t cannot start itself, hence some starting device is necessary, and 1t cannot start the load, hence the clutch is also neces- differs considerably from the steam engine and the electric motor. which start on the throttle and on control Ter. That the self-starting car and its self-starting device is more than talking point. is already evident by the number of well known makers systems. The self-starting system are divided up into three classes; mechani- cal. compressed air and gas, and electric, and as early as November, ed that 4.3 per cent of the 1912 models were already fitted with a mechanical self starter, 97 per cent with the air starters, and Editor Heldt, of Horse less Age, now estimated that 50 per cent of the 1912 product will be ft- ted with some sort of a self-starting ways be borne in mind that the self starter cannot start car unless ev- erything else is all right, i. e.. the gas an dthe spark" and the method of starting on the spark, which is now so largely in vogue through what is called the dual magneto, is not al- ways to be relied upon, the factors of compression in the cylinders, and of, the quality and quantity of the gas therein being important
 SOME SELF STARTERS
 In the Winton six, air pressure ad- mitted to the cylinders causes the pis- strokes. During this movement, which draws in fresh gas, the spark occurs. igniting the charge and causing the motor to begin its regular operations. starting on the spark which is rather uncertain and violent.
 One of the most popular self start CTS is called the Disco. and already 4.o0e of them are in use in the East. It may be found on the following well known cars: Hudson, Everitt, Sim stexensl st, OoiDy neretion Aao, ths Disco system is simple, a single turn of g. small handle conveniently locat- ed on the dash being all that is nec- essary beyond a switching on of the ignition. This single turn of the han de be 1t added serves to insure the introduction into each cylinder of an almost minute quantity of acetylene gas from the ordinary compr essed gas tank Then when the spark is turn ed on the motor starts itself, and so efuclenL mas the in6LnOQ proven that in ninety-eight cases out of every hundred motors have been started cas- fly and instantly. without the slight est further trouble.
 The self-starting device employed on the 1912 Cadillac cars is part of an electric system of starting, ignition and lighting combined. It is the prod uct of the Dayton Engineering Lab oratories Go. of Dayton, O., and is known as the Delco- System. In brief the plant consists of a dynamo which is operated as a generator by the en- zine to charge the storage battery. and automatically transformed into a rent to operate it as a motor being supplied by the storage battery.
 The Chalmers self-starter is of, the air-pressure type, the principle upon which it works being the storing of air under pressure in a tank and the for the purpose of turning over the motor. In other words with the Chal- merS self-starter the motor is oper- ated by compressed air. in place of cranking by hand, until the regular ignition system for exploding gas in
 A popular starter is called the Ever Ready Automatic Engine Starter. The Ever Ready is a mechanical device about the size of an automobile head light and looks like a headlight re- versed, It is placed on the front of the car Two powerful springs are employed. These springs are wound automatically and then held by brake-band. which in conjunction with a release lever. is connected by a trip Bowden wire cable to a pedal on the footboard of the car. Press the pedal with the foot, the brakeband is released, the springs unwind, the mo-