Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-16
Chalmers Hot Spot
In Week of Nation
Wide Demonstration
Test Proves Permanent Barrier to Low
Grade Gas Troubles.

Detroit, Feb. 16.--The average figures
of the recent Chalmers Hot-spot week OF
national demonstration reveal possibili
ties, in this remarkable gasoline remedy
exceeding even the claims of factory en-,
gineers.
/ With the exception of the very mild
sections the south and the far west,
the test was conducted simultaneously
in every section ana nearly every state
in the union.
In order that the demonstration would
carry the full weight oil value with the
public, rigiG contest rules were enforced
and several of the highest scores have
been disqualified for minor technicai-
ties.
Average of Ten Coldest States Selected.
Figures from certain parts of the
south and even including a number of
places ON the Pacific coast were not al
/ lowed owing to the mildness of the
weather.
Finally in order to trim the returns
down to the most severe climatic CON
ditions the returns of the ten coldest
states were selected by the committee
and the following figures have been re-
leased as the Coast-to-Coast average:
The Average.
Time for first explosion, seconds.
Time to actually start engine, 16 sec
onds.
Maximum acceleration, SO seconds.
Average temperature, below zero.
a OF "a -,
each city.
Test duration, Is miles in the open.
Gasoline analysis, average, slightly be-
low inferior grade on the market.
In each instance an observer was to
be with the car without intermission for
the fifteen hours. The hood or the rad
iator of the ear was in no way to be
protected and the judges in every in
stance case checked and conducted the
tests in detail. The personnel Of the
judges committee is too extensive for
publication but included judges, justices
auto-club presidents and many automo-
bile editors.
1--WE Best Performances.
The two best performances were
staged at Des Moines, Iowa, and Great
Falls, Montana. At Des, Moines where
everything was frozen tight from the re-
cent blizzard, the average temperature
for Is hours was 13 degrees below zero
and the Chalmers Hot-spark started in
five seconds and in 20 seconds accelerat
ed to % miles an hour.
At Great Falls the mercury once
touched IL degrees below zero for an
average of 10 below throughout the
test. 1t took only seconds for the
Chalmers Hotspark to sing on all six
cylinders and in five additional seconds
it was accelerating to maximum power.
The fuel analyses in this case showed
"a per cent gasoline. &
The test at st. Louis was staged dur
ing 15-hour temperature of 10 degrees
below zero and the first explosion Of the
famous Hot-spot engine was timed at 80
seconds. AT Buffalo, N. Y. the Chal
mers started in seconds with an aver
age temperature of one degree below
zero.
Gasoline Experts Interested.
The figures quoted were merely in Sc
lected instances, the entire details of the
national test are printed in the current
edition of the Chalmers magazine.
The outstanding feature of the test
is the interest it has awakened among
experts concerned with the great prob
lem of gasoline supply in the United
States. Although such places as Cali
fornia have no complaint of cold wealth
er starting the ability of the Chalmers
Hot-spot and Ramshorn Manifold to in
tensify the power Of present day low
grade gasoline makes the present Chal-
mers potent factor in the gasoline sit !
uation as It eyists i'm this cnnntry