The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-30

the steering wheel, YOU will see that W.
have a little control lever on II. and II
Is with this control lever that We operate
me car. When We pull this around into
the position marked high on the steer
ing sector We form by doing this a mag
netiC lock between the magnet and the
drive shaft. aud We are now going 10
drive our car in the same way YOU drive
your ear when YOU go into nigh with
the exception that when you GO into
high you form a rigid connection he
tween the power plant and the rear
wheels, whereas With our car YOU will
notice thatwe drive through AN air space.
II y in this way that we get the beau,i-
full flexible drive that IL Just Ike a now
OF power. giving one the impression Of
coasting al the time. And when We
have formed this magnetic lock by going
INTO high by the operation ~ the accele-
rator we can go from n speed so slow
that you will have to watch some sta
tiorary object IN order "a sec II your car
is moving up 10 a speed Of go miles per
hour.
"Now when We come 20 a grade that
Is TOO stcer to climb on high our car
unless we get more power % the drive
shaft-wouid come to a stand so we
must ind some means OF increasing
torque or power pull that Is equivalent to
n lower gear ratio as found In your car.
Therefore, our next operation will he To
move the control lever on the wheel from
The position on high TO one of the lower
speed positions. thereby partially cutting
out the magnetic lock. to which ! pre-
Nousiy called your attention. This
changed position of the lever now brings
into service an electric motor Of conven-
tional design and construction, which now
enters into the construction OF the chas-
sis, as you will SEQ by referring to II" in
Fig No. 3. Having cut out the magnetic
lock, our engine Is now permitted 70 OPP
crate at a higher speed, the result being
that the slipping " the magne. around
the end of the drive shaft creates cur
rent which is directed TO the electric mo-
tor, which now acts as a power booster
10 the propeller shaft. and the latter, as
YOU VIII see by the illustration. passes
through the centre OF the electric motor.
W find that the more we advance
the control lever on the wheel to tho
lower speed positions the more s~lippage
we obtain. and the more slippage we oh
tain the more current we obtain, and the
more current We obtain the more booster
power we obtain for taking us ,p the
grade. and of course our driving sense
Will indicate 10 US where to place the
control lever on the wheel, because we
naturally wish 10 obtain n proper re-
lat'onshlp between the speed OF the en-
CINE and that of the rear wheels. We
can put this control lever into position
designated as ! and place the front
wheels against a Nat ten-inch curb and
with our foot on the accelerator can
slowly climb up the face of this curb
provided we can get traction for our
rear wheels.
This is really all there Is to our
proposition. Sow ! wish ia establish
the point that ] started out to make
viz, that this Is the simplihed auto.
mobile.
You would not think of buying ar
automobile unless It were equipped with
q lighting and starting outfit. and We
find these units on every car built TO-
dav--a generator and a motor, Thu
two units we find IN our illustration
are nothing hut an enlarged lighting ant
lt'ar'lrG ou'f'. Tho whit ! have described
Hs being 4 magnet ia in reality n zen
cratic ticld which IL evolved by III
q .nHk SHAFT of I'VE engine. We h4v'
simply taken these two units and ar
ranged them a little differently In OIL
chassis and made them larger. 90 ina
in addition 70 giving you . lighting an