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Show In Sait Lake City for the First Time I I Ready for Demonstration Now I I The Sensation of Motordcsm. The Car m Quiet as to fee Almost Uncanny. I v I Yet a Car of Persistent Over-Power. This Is the Stearns with the Kmght- I jj I Type Motor the Greatest Car Ever Unlit. Speak Now for Your Turn . I H B six years of astounding success behind it. Foreign makers The Wonder-Power Won Dewar Trophy j H were first to adopt it -were first to prove it out and they . ' i , , . , ,u i ' when turning, idly ai the curb there is scarcely sound Uhe Roval Automobile Club of England offers the proved it out to a certainty. ,. , ! or vibration to show the engine is running. Dewar Trophy. H The results were as follows: The gMea o1 thf. road SH.vsone of the owners, n ig dffered for foe greatest achievement of the year Daimler the leading car of Englandsince 1908 has . "as though it were sliding on runners." jn automobile engineering. been a Knight-motored car. Every evidence of effort to which one is accustomed T lono . , . L .M . In 1900 this trophv was won bv the Knight-type mo-I mo-I Mercedes the monarch of the German fieldis now a lacking in the Stearns. t or I Knight-type car. On hills the Steams-Knight shows that persistent . . . . , , . 1 H lr ' 1 fri ' t v;as wnn in a JCS beyond precedent a test which I And the Mercedes engine which the Knight-type sup- Power mown in 0 nc ors" engineers called impossible a test which no poppet valve ffl M planted, was considered the master engine of the world. n traffic one may run at walking speed on high gear, motor ever will attempt. . . , T, ,r. . . , then quickly accelerate to any speed wanted without anv Panhard, the pride of France Minerva, Belgium s jumping or pounding ' At the end of the test which equaled two years of greatest car both have come to this sleeve-valve motor. ordinary service the engines developed more power than 1 Thus the four leading cars of the Old World have rec- QalflC SlnEshiofl " Btart" And showed Dot B of wear I ognized that the poppet valve must go. sMIvO ilQUDIvO Such is the verdict, of the world's foremost auhority on I Last summer, after two years of testing, the Steams Stearns cars have been famous for 16 years. They the sleeve-valve type of motor found in the Stearns-Knight, .M came into line. have attained an immense popularity. I That is the record of the Knight-type motor after six But the first announcement of this sleeve-valve motor g EVCIltllfll OtOT I years of the limelight. doubled the sales in a month. -I Seventeen of the world's greatest makers have adopt- It compelled the lease of a new factory. The Knight-type motor, after years of tests, has been ed it. And 10,000 owners of high grade cars adopted by the world's best cars. I dreai Designers wBtiB3r&ffi&&M&B JBStt J&aEm Ja&IIr Bf iK&k hard and Minerva -in so vital a mal ter must The Knighl xvay is regarded as the ideal ILfyiUT TVOC lyiAfngS 1 IH solution. The foremost engineers have agreed. (Vnibn I " I I TL If3v B WH J But those who belittle it to sell ears without it are vOfllC 8R0 wC6 t1 seeking other means to this end. Hundreds of men who got early deliveries have run p. , , - tllp homina in these ears hiuidreds of thousands of miles. And the let- ,' v,'rv motorcar lover should see this cor. It is the 1 mJ 01 PT 1 tI v nl Z they write to the factory form the highest tribute ever opic of the hour in Motordom. Come and look it over. modern gasoline engines. They are noisy and slow and ail American car. Then et Pt the engine to any test you want. The new I leaky. demonstrator is ready. Because of the interest in this new 1 There are two in each cylinder springing shut bun- type of engine those who want to ride behind it had best ! dreds of times per minute. gg fgf Qf jPg fQgf arrange early. 0t They require frequent grinding. "When carbon accum- 1 t I ulates, so the valves aren't tight, there is vast waste of Tup cylinders in the Stearns-Knight are I 1-4x5 t-2 pa 1 power. inches. ' &CllpV11Elt I 1 Cams arc required, and cams get noisy when they By accepted standards such an engine is rated ai 28.9 Warner 4uto -Meter Model K. I wear. Timing gears are used, and their humming can be horsepower. Banker Windshield.' I; heard. But we guarantee that this engine will show an excess Silk Mohair Top and Cover. I I Thus silence is made impossible. Power and efficiency 0 aot ess iau 59 pel (,CLlt Vesta Dynamo Electric Lighting System. J I are greatly reduced. And every designer knows it. fcQ rf poppet vaveg. Continental Q. D. Demountable Rims (two extra z I The Stearns-Knight engine has no timing gears, no leakage. And to the spherical shape of the explosion cham- lims). hm e, , 1 u Klaxon Horn also Bulb Horn. m springs, no cams, no poppet valves. ber. . 2 r"v " I ' V Trunk Rack, Robe Rail, Foot Rest, etc. S- I T3 te re is no carbon trouble, no valve grinding, no leak- That 's an immense item. Touring Car. I agr' The acti0D is silent and certaiD' No larger cylinders, no greater consumption of gaso- Toy Tonneau. I No man who knows half what we know about it will line. Yet half again as much power as the rating calls for. Roadster. I consider a poppet valve motor. Think what that means. 1 n Monarch liofor Company It J Temporary Headquarters, 139 E. Second South 1 1 |