Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-12-19 | Page 32 | New Automobile Motor Wins Success

Ml AUTOMOBILE MOTOR IIS ! SUCCESS m m gXensBexxenaxs French Employ Semi-Diesel ' ' Engine to Drire Auto-. Auto-. ' motive Car "PARIS. Deo. It Tha "seml-Dlesel" automobile Is now an accompllahsd fact. Ona of these oil burning motors vacantly was Installed on a heavy tour-Iwr tour-Iwr car chassis weighing two and one-hi one-hi If tons. Tha ear made ths trip to ' Bordeaux and bark In two days, carrying car-rying five passengers, much baggage and elxty gallons of reserve furl. Tha motor Is designed to burn "gas. SjU," a heavy petroleum product re-saining re-saining after the kerosene haa bean 2 tract ad. It costs here It cents a lion, as compared with 6 cents for gasoline. The car mads about seven miles to ths gallon snd shout HO mllea on a gallon of lubricating oil, so that ths cost of operation worked out at J cents a mile. Experts In charge of tha experiment predict a great future for this type of motor. Ths snglne used was found too small for ths weight It hsd to pull, but sn sverags speed of thirty miles sn hour wss maintained, which was re. garded as creditable. Tha "semi-lMeael" "semi-lMeael" type of motor. Its friends say. not only costs leae for upkeep, but la simpler, snd therefore cheaper, to make them the atandard type. Experiments Ex-periments are being conducted with the idea of ualng this new engine on the automobile busses of Paris.