| Show ORD FORD F MOTOR COMPANY NE theres meres a new victor in the motor boat racing world and wherever enthusiasts enthusiast ts gather for the next few months to speculate an on the big events scheduled for the coming season sea Us ils pretty safe to presume that of ey will ivill have considerably to say albut nine ninety nine edsel 13 fords new racer is is a marvel in its class clam to the old timers who gathered for th the sweepstakes race down at miami fla a couple of weeks ago it teas ras a complete surprise nine ninety nine made its debut when it entered for the biscayne bay 1924 championship on the afternoon of march ath with halt half a dozen other contenders for the honor at the gun the trim sturdy little craft fairly leapt into the fray and them se settled down beautifully for the 20 lap grind 0 rind around the two mile mila course soon it had taken half a lap lead over its nearest competitor and steadily maintained this until the end of the heat and without being pushed to any extent carried away the honors of the day in splendid style nine ninety nine with tho the same sure confident air of the tha first day and lettering out a trifle more went into the second heat of the race with a new burst of speed lapped its nearest competitor three times and easily held that lead to the end of the forty mile grind willing the championship and the mcallister McAll Lster hotel trophy Trop liy a magnificent silver cup standing sMil ding 29 inches high bagh 0 on its base of ebony nine ninety nine arrived home a lay day or wo iwo av ago 0 at the ford engineering Engi nering laboratory out at dearborn midi mich where it will remain until the big classics later in the year the name nine ninety nine flashing its silvered letters on sides seemed rather familiar and perhaps a bit signia significant icart many will remember the name not a score of years ago when henry H e nry ford was pioneering 0 in the automobile business he developed a racing car christened it and drove it to victory in races all over the country it was with that he be first broke the mile a minute record ford experts pioneering now in gas driven nautical engines seem to have attained a notable achievement in the motor hidden beneath the glistening deck of 0 nine ninety nine which aich returned e a winner in the first race of its career the nine ninety nine is as feet 6 inches long and has a 6 foot beam it is of V bottom dis placement and built for the international ter sweepstakes class it is of mahogany with a three ply bottom two ply sides and one ply top the dobli is of design and the refis no raised engine hatch batch tile the engine al cylinder ford Liberty marine conversion is a distinct development of ford en inders i in eera in building it they used the crankcase crankshaft and con geeting rods of tho the ford liberty aircraft engine the pistons I 1 c cam shafts valves valve springs ignition system induction manifold ing and exhaust piping are of new design the cylinders are of in an entirely different design thau than in the liberty and are made of steel forgings forg ings welded together the original displacement of the liberty was 1650 dubie dubic inches but in the pew anew engine the displacement is 1350 cubic inches about 20 per cent less than th that it of the liberty hut but despite this more horsepower is developed A V dry plate clutch was desin design WW i col cd and this with the gear box were built in the highland park plant of the ford motor com pany ny i thea I 1 hii gearbox air Is is an n engineering achievement and a type hereto tore fore never used i boat engines ines designed to stand up ip i under abs tbs most severe continuous r and able to transmit 99 ent of the power from the t L tie lie to the driving shaft gear hoes ho es used in other marine marin e eno mes gines are formed of course straight teeth while in the ford marine 12 the gear is of fine pitch herring bone bevels which transmit the power without any appreciable noise a new feature in engineering design there is noting of the haywire I 1 engine el about this power plant it was built from the boards up stresses in all parts were ircle carefully calculated and the designs were worked out and developed by the highest 0 engi engineering n skill the propeller shaft strut is is entirely eliminated and the shaf shafa is maintained uy dy a hearing bearing carried in in the rudder the rudder i itself is controlled by a worm gear 1 another new development is the use of a two gear universal i joint in the line of drive so that t whenever the plant is out of lin line e with the bottom of the boat there is sufficient leeway to prevent any loss of power powe r due to binding riding in the cockpit of the nine ninety nine is much like riding at the drivers seat ot a lincoln limousine so far as cleanliness is concerned theres none non e of the dirt oil and grease usually associated with motor boat driving the air coming in at the front of the engine circulates through it down underneath the tha cockpit and comes out through aluminum louvres douvres in the rear hatch the boat has storage capacity f for gallons of gasoline what is the speed of the ni nine ne ninety ninel no one says or rather no one tells about the most any one will say is that in tests made in the big boat slip at the river rouge plant of the ford motor company the speed attained was everything that was anticipated TRACTOR PLOWING harrow ing and a n d wood sawing morgan bros box bountiful utah 6 11 |
