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Show CARBURETOR HOLDS A, WORLD RECORD Manager of Motor Mercantile Mercan-tile Company Tells of Zenith Supremacy. i Speaking of carburetors yesterday, A. D. McMuIlen, president of the Motor Mercantile company, emphasized the increasing in-creasing popularity of the Zenith. .'o motor part has, ever been given a more thorough test during the war than was this famous carburetor. According to Mr. McMuIlen. it held up admirably in every test and under all sorts of conditions condi-tions and speeds. The supremacy of the Zeuith carburetor in the field of aviation was shown in a convincing manner at the aeronautical exposition held at Madison ,Square Garden Gar-den and Sixty-ninth armory, New York City, which closed a week ago. According Accord-ing lo Y. I. rihobe. assistant general manager of tlie Zenith Carburetor company com-pany of Detroit: "There were thirteen types of airplanes air-planes and dirigibles shown which had been tested and tried , in tlie war service ser-vice or in official service on this side and all of these were equipped with one or more Zenith carburetors. "These included the Be Haviland bat tleplane, tho Curtiss seaplane and Cur-tisa Cur-tisa JN-4, the Hundley-Page night bombr. the SE-5 pursuit plane, the naval flying boat model F-u-U the Gio An-saldo An-saldo Italian combat plane, the S-Y-A-j day bomber, the Astra Torres divisible car, the standard postal plane, the Ca-proni Ca-proni bomber, tho -navy dirigible coast patrol and the four-passenger dirigible car. Altogether there were 13S carburetors carbu-retors installed - on the various motors shown and of these G2 per cent were Zenith carburetors, the remaining 3S per cent being divided among six other types'. , "Tho dependable action of the Zenith, which has placed It high in the esteem of every airman, is an attribute appreciated appre-ciated by the driver of a passenger car, commercial car or motor truck. If further fur-ther evidence is needed to convince the cvery-day motorist of the desirable character char-acter of the Zenith, he has only to con-' sider the fact, that the Packard car In which Ralph Pe Pahna recently smashed all existing offieiu 1 speed records was equipped with 'a Zenith stock commercial carburetor of the duplex type. Whon a car travels a mile in 2-1.02 seconds there 1 can be no question of the perfect action of its carburetor, and when It travels the twenty-mile strer.ch at the rate of 1H4.S5 miles per hour the last possible doubt is removed. P' Pa! ma is frank to state that he has used the Zenith exclusively fpr the past three clears." |