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Show LIMIT DISPLACEMENT OF RACING MOTORS The action of tlie Indianapolis race officials of-ficials in liudiin? the size of the motors in the competing cars next year 1j 1 3 cubie inches piston displacement is rle' 1 tlned to have a videspread Influence on the design of American cars ot" every I sort, in the opinion of K. C. Purdy of the Furdy-Reilley Motor company, locral distributors dis-tributors of Nelson cars. "The roof was the limit when racing first bepan," said Mr. Purdy last week. "The early days of the racing Fame were featured bv such monsters as the 1-0 . Fiats and the Blitren Benz.. "The French designers realized first, however, that if there was any practical good to be sained from racing, the dimensions dimen-sions of the racera must approximate those 01 ordinary cars. 80 they set limit?, lim-it?, at first aa to the amount of fuel : which the cars must consume while com- : petlng- In their Grand Prix. Later they set a definite limit on the size of the, piston displacement. "When K. A. Nelson designed the motor of the Nelson car he sensed the coming demand for an efficient motor of far less than 300-Inch displacement." 1 |