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Show TO LAY UP CAR 15 I0W OUT Or DATE Devices for Utilizing Gasoline Gaso-line Are Important in Cold Weather. It is getting to be out of date to lay up tho car whenever the first cold day comes, since the use of automobiles has 'become so much a part of every-Uay living. liv-ing. Yet cold weather, every motorist knows, has a great influence on the way f gasoline acts, especially when the variety i of fuel available today Is compared with ! that obtainable only a. few years ago. ' This is the opinion f C. W. Newton, i local manager and salesagent for the , FYanklin Automobile company. Gasoline is the starting point In motor car operation, and when the quality drops, efficiency has to be made up from another source. In discussing this requirement, Ralph Murphy, engineer of the Frankli'i Automobile company, mentions men-tions that the adaptation w present-day I gasoline has called for sonic of the most ingenious devices that automobile design t has produced. I Taking the Franklin car as an exrn- pie, he showed how preheating the gasoline gaso-line iu the carburetor by an electric coil, i makes the gasoline volatile even on the coldest day, so that it is readily ignitable ! in the cylinders. In order fo produce I an intense spark nt the time of starting. Franklin design uses another electrical attachment, the master vibrator. Intake yoke hea.tors are also coming in for much favor. The Fra nklin engine has incorporated this feature for four years and has proved its efficiency in preventing condensation of the mixture. Other elements arriving at this same end are the preheating of the air that mixes with the gasoline, and also such an apparently ap-parently inconsequential point as the. shape of the Franklin intake manifold. Mr. Murphy spoke also of the advantage advan-tage of needle valve control Ivy the driver, in order to maintain the quality of the mixture at the proper point under frequent fre-quent change of weather conditions. Another An-other tendency in design is to compensate compen-sate for the natural wear in the cylinders, as is done in the Franklin through self-ex self-ex pa ndi hit pic ton rings so lo insure .-'.gainst such results as thinning of the lubricating oil or the fouling of plugs, most liable to occur in cold weather. i |