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Show SLEEVE-VALVE MOTOR USED IIWI TANKS It Is now commonly conceded by military mili-tary experts that the tank was one of the great decisive factors in winning the world war. It is also said that had the British realized the panic spread through the German army at the first appearance ap-pearance of these great lumbering monsters, mon-sters, a catastrophe might have ensued in the ranks of the enemy. In the opinion of engineers, according to Manager Arch Browning of the Browning Brown-ing Automobile company, local distributors distribu-tors of Willys-Knight cars, the success of the British tanks is due largely to the type of motor selected to drive It. This is the sieve-valve type, according to Browning, and of the same family of motors mo-tors that is usi-d in all Willys-Knight cars. Thso large tanks of armor plate construction, con-struction, with the motor enr-losed, form a sounding board to internal noise nnd the quietness of this motor is another feature in its fvor. One of thee giant tanks, the Britannia, which recently made a tour of the t'nit'-d States, accompanied by a Willys-Knight car, driven by a s'.ecve-valvo s'.ecve-valvo motor of the eiuht-cylinder type. One i m prove mr-nt after another is being be-ing made in tank construction. Smaller tanks are said to be ahlo to travel faster than the Cermans could get out of the wiiy and to manipulate as quickly as a man can dodge. Ki 1 ent ex.111 rifnK-es lmw their value in crushing dowr, barPed wire. m.u'liiiK-jain nests and even I a king whole hatti ries nf gnus, as was arcomplishwl by Sfrg-ant Graham, who, s.-alt-d on thr- tunt if a tvo-man tank, t-allfd to a battery of emus to suvrrndfr. which tl-y promptly d:H. V.ut rga rdb'ss of other 'ha ug-s, it is evjritMit that the British, nftT thir f-x-p.--ri'-'n in a. tual nprr ions on the Heating Heat-ing front, an- Trivii.ce. I 'hat nntrli of tli.-. yii.M-i-.--y of th 'ir rimtor tanks may be .unit '.!!-'! to tho quiet, povirlul shve-i ..the motor. ' |