Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-01
AUTO DESIGN DUE
AFORWARD Squirt
November viii Bring Initial
Stock Car Of
ferings.
anecial nisnatch to Tha star.


Special Dispatch to The star.
DETROIT, October 31.-With the
approach of 1882, the progress Of au-
tomobile design is due for forward
squirt. The impetus will be twofold In
extent. It will apply both to the pas
senger car types on the highways and
the racing cars that viii compete on
the speedways next year.
November viii bring the initial stock
car offerings by the American makers
prior to the opening of the national
automobile show in New York, which is
to climax the new year concentration
period for new models.
Word from indianapolis.
On the racing side, the word from
Indianapolis Is that more cars are being
prepared for the 5O0-mile race than
ever before. With these prospects In
view, it has been decided to Increase
the entry fee to $500 and to boost the
speed required for qualification from
IS to 100 miles an hour.
At the same time, Harry A. Miller,
famous Los Angeles builder of racing
car power plants, developer Of the front
drive and other mechanisms, has an
nounced that he is building q four
weel drive racer for 1892 competition
on the speedway. Mr.. Miller, with his
manager, Preston Tucker, has been in
Detroit this week and has described
the new job, which win be the first
Of its kind Indianapolis has ever seen.
The new Miller racer will have 16
cylinders, feeding 800 horsepower direct
to all 4 wheels, which will have the
additional new feature of being indie
pendently sprung. According to Mr..
Miller and Mr.. Tucker, this method
of whirling a car over the burning
bricks" heretofore confined to Europe,
has advantages superior even TO those
Of the front drive.
Front drive, it viii be remembered,
scored its great victory at Indianapolis
in 1890 when Billy Arnold ran away
from the Indianapolis field for spec
tacular win with the Miller-HartZ car.
Quadruple drive and independent wheel
mounting, Mr. Miller believes, viii add
flexability and give better traction at
high speed, than front drive has ever
done.
Built into the new car as well, there
will be hydraulic clutch, which Mr..
Miller has perfected. Fluid, circulating
from one chamber to another through
q bypass" in this mechanism, Is made
to cushion clutch operation in such q
manner that two speeds only, instead OF
the three and four speeds now used,
become practical, with the lower speed
rarely, If ever, requiring use.
With this clutch, Mr.. Miller says, ac-
celeration from 10 to 90 miles an hour
becomes smooth and easy within block
and half distance.
The car for Indianapolis is being
built in the Miller shops for DR.. G. M.
Macarthur of Detroit. Following the
race the frame and drive shaft VIII
hn laYY0fharaAA and q rnV4NrnV~tffHla cnftQFl
body will be mounted on the chassis,
which the owner win use for high
speed touring.
The Miller plans also contemplate
the construction Of sim another car,
with the aim of wrestling away from
Sir Malcolm Campbell the world speed
Championship at Daytona Beach in
February or March next. The power
plant Is to duplicate one already built
Tor Gar Wood when he renews his att
tempt TO lower Kaye Don's world speed
boat record in Florida during the
WINTER resort season down there.
1880 HIP. Developed.
This one has 16 cylinders and Ills
cubic inches Of displacement, develop
ing I,S00 horsepower at 5000 revolu-
lions. Complete with magnetos, super
chargers and everything on it, the en-
CINE weighs / ,635 pounds. This puts It
In new class because less than one
pound Of engine weight per horsepower
Is required to run 1t. The super
charger, incidentally, win be operated
at only $500 +. D. m, as compared
with the 10000 that many high-pow-
cred racers have had to use up to now
and which has been responsible Tor
frequent breakage and disaster.
With this engine is q chassis built
specially for it. Mr.. Miller hopes that
nour may become q reality, and that
the Campbell mark Of 245 miles an
nour viii be wiped out 70 regain the
iand speed championship for America.
With a community of interest de-
velop1ng between the Indianapolis race
and the Daytona Beach trials. the New
local point because high passenger car
power and speed will be exemplined IN
the new models to be revealed for 1881.
In the last Indianapolis race stock car
engines, originating in the Studebaker,
Hudson and other plants, performed
with credit to their builders. There
were only cars Of the 20 racers tac-
ing the line that showed less than
100 miles IN hour In qualifying.
Raising the rate to 100. the Speed
way offcials believe, should have the
effect Of automatically eliminating the
usual fringe OF poorly-built incapanle
entries which have failed 70 nnd
places, but which have used up vai1a-
ole time IN futile efforts to set u.
CcooyTighh 1884. By. thu North American
MswsDaUes AllianeaA 1nA.l