The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-10

formerly built f~our-cylinder automo-
piles have no cars of that type on ex-
nloftion this year, having committed
themselves for the season of 1914 to
SIX cylinders. Going back through the
years 1t is interesting to consider that
When the automobile first appeared on
the market n n two cylinder mo-
tors-many of them of the horizontal
ltype-Were the accepted idea, chiefly,
OF course, for the reason hat multi
cvllnder motors were known only
Theoretically n not widely known
even In his way at that. Then came
the f~our@cylinder models of vertical
design, which eight or nine years ago
became the prevailing fashion. But
the engineers were not satisfied; en-
CINE troubles were all too frequent a
factor in motoring, and they set to
work to n a motor that would run
more smoothly, more consistently,
with more efficiency, and with less liza
olllty to breaks of various sorts. The
, deslderatum was of maximum of pow
er transmitted to the rear axle, with
a Of fuel. Perhaps this Is
not quite the correct way of putting
lt-say, a maximum of power from the
amount of fuel consumed
Then, of course. less noise and less
vibration Were desired. Every one who
ran motors, some years ago, will bear
testimony that their course was not
attended either by that pleasing dull
Get mum OF the a of yesterday, or
the absolute silence OF the automobile
of today. While there is no question
tnat the four-cylinder car of the pres
ent q these merits, there Is also no
doup that the evolution Of the six
cylinder motor accomplished much in
the way OF imparting speed and ST.
ience, OF increasing fiexibility, and re-
dlcing noise and vibration to a mimi
mum.
There We're makers who attempted
to take advantage of the lessons
learned through development and APP
pllcation OF the six-cylinder car by
using eight cylinders, but the project
was ultimately abandoned for reasons
mechanical and otherwise. Six un-
questionably-considering all-around
advantages-is an ideal number OF
Ecylinders, and they supply power stuff
cient to meet any emergency. With
the six~-cylinder type. as is constant
" being explained at the show, there
are six explosions to one revolution
of the crank shaft, and the energy
generated by these is directly applied
six times during a. single revolution,
instead OF four times as in the four
cylinder motor. This results in a
practically continuous supply OF pow
er. and whereas In the fo~ur-cyIinder
motor each cylinders explosion has to
supply power to one quadrant of q
circle, = explosion in a six-cylinder
Jig supplied to six equal parts OF a
circle. II Is understood. of course.
that p circle in this connection lis the
revolution OF the crank shaft.
On the other hand, f~our-cylinder
advocates base their claims upon less
expense of operation, while at the
Same time they maintain that the car
OF -four cylinders--saye / II respect of
high Speeds in every way as sat
isfactory, as efficient. as durable, as
strong as the automobile with two
more cylinders. 1t Is all a very inter
esting question and will be thorough
" threshed out before the show is
over.
While, as said. the two topics above
dWelt upon, seemed to- beo 4 prime i'm