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Show TO REPLACE THE CAMEL. As the result of extensive experiment in the use of an automobile on the desert, a novel car has Just been completed for the use of the Sirdar of Egypt, who will use It on the vast sandy stretches of the Sudan. Su-dan. The motive power consists of a 20-horse-power three-cylinder vertical engine with a Ronold silent chain transmission. The wheels are entirely inclosed by light metal side plates, leaving nothing but the broad, solid rubber tires exposed, and it is thought that the latter will remove the difficulty of getting over the surface of loose, shifting sand without becoming embedded em-bedded so deeply as to impede progress. To prevent the fine grit working into any part of the mechanism the entire under-body under-body is protected by an ingeniously devised de-vised apron. Either kerosene or gasoline suits the engine en-gine equally well, and owing to the character char-acter of the country to be traversed, provision pro-vision has specially been made for a three days' supply of cooling and drinking water, wa-ter, as well as fuel. The change speed gear gives a range of from three to twenty twen-ty miles an hour. The car will in addition addi-tion haul a two-wheel trailer, very similar simi-lar to a gun carriage, upon which will be mounted a dynamo and searchlight, to be run from the car engine. This will be used for night observations in the desert. Without the searchlight carriage the weight of the car is close to 6000 pounds. Motor World. |