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Show I CHANGE AUTO ; INDUSTRY Merger Said to Involve Larg-' Larg-' est Auto and Oil Companies to In the United States " FORTY MILES PER GALLON, IS ESTIMATE Operates More Like a Steam 30 tagine Than Present Automobile, Auto-mobile, Engineers Say BY LNCOLN Ql'ARBERG ' inited Press Staff Correspondent ) ' ' los ANGELES, Aug. 6. An mtonioblle of revolutionary design, 25 driven by a new and powerful brand f synthetic gasoline, Is about to It offered the public, It was revenl- to the United Press todny, by a bernlnil engineer of untlonal repu- )j tation attending the convention here jj oi the American Chemical society. jj Financiers behind the project Kblcli Involves a $5,000,000,000 busl- 1 ness merger, are not ready to make in official announcement of their flans, but details of the proposed gigantic deal have been laboratory pssip among technical men for II months, according to this authorita-0' authorita-0' live Informant. i Of proposed merger Involves General 0) Motors, Standard Oil, the Dupont fflemlcal corporation and other leading motor and petroleum firms, 'it was learned. General Motors will Install the sensational sen-sational engine In their five makes nt automobiles, according to the pressed pre-ssed scheme. The Dupont company com-pany will make the new motor fuel ' in their vast laboratories, out of raw materials accumulated by the Standard Oil buying organization. Distribution of the fuel will be effected ef-fected by the nation wide chain of nil stations maintained by Standard Oil and Its affiliated concerns. Local official's of the three gignn-tic gignn-tic corporation involved refused, to jj iffirm or deny the contemplated project. ''' Any authentic Information would have to come from headquarters," une engineer snl; '"I n?ed not feint ont however, that the advan- tapes of such combination are ap-patent ap-patent to any Intelligent observer." " The new fuel, which will be mar- Med under the name of "Synthol," k nay be manufactured from petro- lenm, coal or lignite. Its base, according ac-cording to analysists who have tested the product, is benzol. Sev- eral verities of alcohol and a mys- ttr I terious metallic catalyst, not like letral ethyl lead, make up the mix- o! tm Its action in the new motor de- signed for use is snid to be. more aE Dearly like steam power than any st internal combustion engine yet de-( de-( vised. The gas In the cylinders at Usher compression than used In an ordinary engine, expands without explosive force and hisses from the Hbaust valves like escaping steam according to technicians who have watched the workings of the motor. Iff' These advances alone would place he new motor and its fuel for a lend of any automobile now on the Mtket, It was said. In addition K It Is claimed that the new motor llt Is never troubled by carbon deposits, Bo poisonous fumes are generated, nl 'd, because of the extreme smooth-ID smooth-ID urns of the rfower imptilScs, the ai. '"sine has a flexabillty undreamed jjj Kv those acquainted with inter-fn inter-fn "1 combustion motors. ,tlt Genr shifting is practically un-1W un-1W necessary because like a stenm en-jllf en-jllf ?le the motor is almost as efficient mi 't low speeds as when running in formal highs. The new automobile Bj "'I'1 tun approximately 40 miles to m "" Rnllon, although exact figures " the efficiency tests of the motor f. "odftiel are said to be guarded with j test secrecy. , Application of the motor and Its v '"1 to airplane construction will j '""lutlnnize aerial transiiortatioii, up |