El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-02-03
MORE FOR MONEY
IS MOTOR SLOGAN
Construction of 1912 Models
Is Along Most Flat
tering Lines.
By Autograph.

The 1912 automobile development as
revealed I'm the models, 80 per cent OF
which are now ready to market shows
4 marked tendency toward the intro
ductiOn of self starting devices as stock
eQufDmenr. straight line bOuies and
long stroke motors
The Introduction OF the first named
is a revelation OF what the manu-
facturer Of today can give for the
money as compared with what the buy
ing public was taught TO receive four
or five years agU.
Generally the prices Of machines have
not been materially reduced but the
margin has been scaled by the addi-
ton Of self starters, lighting systems
and all other tried appurtenances which
tend toward the perpetivity Of perfect
motoring comfort
The straight line body follows as
door With the straight line bodies
with as much equipment as possible
taken off of the running board or con-
cealed in il and the growing tendency
to carry the tires over the rear axle,
the automobile of today is particularly
pleasing to the eye.
The long stroke motor at first
foreign importation has been seized
upon and ampliried by the American
mechanical laboratories and the de-
velopment of this particular style OF
motor tends toward economy in fuel
are some Of the American manufac-
turers over this type OF motor that
they have gone to the extreme in its
crea ton. Others, in the majority are
using a modified type of the motor
while a small minority still clings TO
the short stroke or block motor
And. too. there has been a general
simplificatiOn of engines and a con-
ceal ment Of parts which of yOre were
wont to protrude inartistically. This
casing Of valves and other parts not
only creates q more slightly motor but
incidentally the coordination Of parts
from being affected by dust and the
Chauffeur from oil and grease
Four American machines this season
have announced that their four cycle
engines will be supplanted by the
great silent Knight motor. This Is the
precipitate Of an american inventor
who had to 90 TO Europe to have MS
invention appreciated and commercial
lied. The motor eliminates the poppeL
valves but unlike the two cycle motor
has four operations attendant upon
each power stroke. Delicate sleeves
are worked forth and back inside the
sylinder and to all practical purposes
its Vaccinations greatly are similar
to the operations OF locomotive
engine.
The Santa Monica road race which
is the speediest motor classic on the
held in May this season instead OF in
the fall. This is so that the Shrfners
who viii be in convention at that time
in Los Angeles may view this comet
like race
9 Italian courses have been touted
high in the United States, here We
have the Grand Prix course at Sa-
vannah but Of all of them the Santa
Monica roadway has stood head and
shoulders by itself
Much sentiment is developing among
some of the big manufacturers against
automobile racing But many firms
have found il the best advertising that
they can do and 1t viii take Phila-
delphia lawyer to argue these people
out of their game The general oppo-
sitiOn to the races are that the cars
are not stock and that the buying pub
lie is deceived BY records which were
made by specially assembled cars.
There is much TO be said on both sides
The national highway is coming
sure When people in all parts Of the
country, Of the substantial class found
among automobiles set Up a universal
demand for a certain thing, that thing
is to materialize sooner or later
A national highway would create a
wonderful national good roads boom.
Every state cut by this splendid artery
of traffic naturally would wish to
ramify the road with other state routes
of the same comparative excellence
and in that way the greatest roads
building boom Of modern times would
be witnessed.
And the one big motoring bugaboo
still is the tires. OF for the invention
Of a surease from this most frequent if
not most painful of all motoring mis-
haps
Colorado is building one Of the finest
systems Of roads in the union. Its
commission which was organized In
1910. has designated % official high
ways, with combined length OF
l645 - miles. covering the state. The
state uses its cOnvicts both in quarries
and in road construction, and is pIan-
ming to spend SO. 900 in state aid.