Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-05-27 | Page 28 | White Sixteen-Valve Proves Efficiency

WHITE SIXTEMLVE PROVESEFFIGIENCY Two years ago, when innovations in engine design appeared to confuse the public, the- White company openly expressed ex-pressed its belief that the basic four would become the permanent type of automobile au-tomobile engine. It was then apparent to the company's engineers that the four-cvlinder four-cvlinder motor could be improved to a point where it would matrli the performance perform-ance of anv oilier tvpe and still re Lain Us acknowledged simplicity. The company fell, what has since become a l'a--t. thai' anv power and flexibility which had beon .'"urc-d bv multiplying cylinders could be produced in a more effective and mtis-factory mtis-factory manner by increasing the valve capacltv of the "four." Long before this achievement became known the leading engineering Journal In the motor car fiHd expressed the same conviction In a review of engine design. This authority said: "Throughout tiie entire Industry the motor engineers have realized that the way to success along the lines of thermal ther-mal and mechanical efficiency is by securing se-curing the closest possible approach to 100 per cent fihini: of the intake stroke." .So it is evident that perfect valvlng is what '"the entire industry" is seeking and that added cylinder units have been employed as a temporary means of producing pro-ducing the result which Improved valve systems should have given, "perfect valving is exactly what the new White engine accomplishes. Hut it goes even further. It permits a complete com-plete exhaust of burned pases, so "1 hat the incoming fresh charges are net impaired bv lurking dead gases. Tiie result Is extraordinary ex-traordinary power at low engine speeds, as well as at high speeds, with an almost complete absence of carbon deposit.