New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-24
KEROSENE SUCCESSFUL
IN LONG AUTO TRIP
parroun Device Likely to Help
Motor Car Industry by
Decreasing Upkeep.
NO CARBON IN CYLINDERS
cost of New Fuel from One
Third TO One Half That
of Gasoline Along
Route Followed.

With the return OF the Indiana-to-the-
Coast automobile tourists to indianapolis
p Henderson, motor car designer, has
,shulated data on the use OF kerosene for
ps, instead OF gasolene in the two Hen
s.rson cars which made the 4,Ol5-mile
,r,p Ray Harroun. well known as
racing driver. and Mr. Henderson drove
IN. two cars, de luxe model and
new six.
Tn. cheapness Of kerosene as against
,,solene was impressive Each car car
RED Eve passengers. the cost per pass
.nger for fuel being So 30 each for the
.m5 miles, or about one-ffth OF the rail-
road excursion rate Of $50 70 California.
In the de luxe model go gallons of kero-
sene were used. The cost OF the fuel
along the route ranged from seven cents
10 about thirteen cents a gallon.
Mr.. Henderson asserts that kerosene in
creased the motors efficiency This he
discovered was due 70 the fact that the
new tuel has a higher heat unit than gas
olene. The explosive power. however. Is
not greater. II took less kerosene vapor
thar gasolene in the cylinders. No carbon
developed In the motor. but. on the con-
trary. the new fuel prevented the forming
o, carbon deposits.
Edward Payson Weston is said 70 have
worn out fully twenty pairs OF shoes in
his coast-to-coast trip five years ago"
Mr.. Henderson says. THAT was an ex-
pense OF not less than 800. So, at Sc 50
8 passenger for fuel. II Is cheaper 70
drive an automobile TO the Coast than il
Is 10 walk or travel on a railroad. IN
one spot We drove % miles on second gear
owing to road conditions. That meant
that the motor was revolving about three
times as fast as on high gear. yet at
this tremendous speed the kerosene was
turned into vapor just az effectively as at
slower speed.
THE problem Of vaporizing kerosene is
the thing that has barred II as a fuel
previous 10 our success. In the higher
attitudes, where the average motor car
loses per cent OF it's power for every
loo feet 1t travels upward, our cars
showed no loss Of power whatever. At
1900 feet the average car loses = Ter
cent OF its power. We have driven in
high attitudes before and have measured
power loss accurately. but we were sur
prised to find no such occurrence on this
occasion"
The trip across the continent encoun-
tered every possible condition-mud. sand,
mountains. rocky passes high attitudes.
dry desert atmosphere and dampness OF
the low country.
In further test OF kerosene as auto
mobile fuel. two University Of Wisconsin
students-Edwin Kohl and Klaus Bergen
thal-saied yesterday for Liverpool %
complete an automobile trip around the
world. They will earn their way by
writing their experiences. Kohl was man
aging editor of the University OF Wiscon-
sin daily newspaper.
They have letters 10 American amoas-
sailors and leading officials Of every
country they will traverse. Leaving iAv-
erpool, they will go through Scotland,
England, France. Germany, Switzerland.
Italy, Russia. China, japan, and VIII sail
from there 70 San Francisco. Then they
will return 10 Indianapolis along the route
Of the proposed 100000 coast-to-coast
highway II is expected that they VIII
nave covered, when they reach Indian
oils approximately 27,0co miles, about
t..4 miles OF which will be water travel
The trip will take about year.