Show War Tests Prove High Value of Knight Willys-Knight Cars end and Their Power Discussion of Knight Willys-Knight s 's cars at atthe I the show generally begins with con con- of these quiet sturdy con I power plants plants' which the experience of motors has proved run continuously I virtually without interruption under all conditions of wear and through I thousands of miles of service I And in speaking of this feature of the Knight Willys-Knight cars SalL SalMan- SalMan Man Man-I ager agel of the Drowning Browning Automobile Automobile Auto Auto- mobile company local Knight Willys-Knight I distributors points out that although i the beautiful symmetry and graceful I flowing body lines of all s 's Knight models have been given careful i consideration and have won praise at every show where they have been ex- ex just as they will at the show I this week at Bonneville park from even the most casual observers it Is a apr pr among the Knight engineers engineers en- en I or of the Overland Willys-Overland company company com com- pany that a fine bOdy cannot raise the standard of a car above the standard of its motor From the engineers engineers' viewpoint explains explains ex- ex plains Edmonds the Knight Willys-Knight body Is a fine beautiful covering for forthE forthe thE marvelous high powered p perpetually youthful Knight power plant It took the hardest kind ot of tests to convince con the automobile experts of thE superior merit of the sleeve valve mo- mo tor It required the undying record i of the accomplishments of the British I Knight motored tanks and omnibuses to forever silence the skeptics continued eon con I Edmonds But long before the war and over the same roads now torn with shells I down which these lumbering Knight 1 motored tanks swept everything before them John K 1 made his first firstI I tests ot of the th sleeve valve motor before deciding to build It War Val has forever established the sleeve valve motor motol as the highest type i ot of dependable long life lIte locomotion It differs from ordinary t types pes of motors in many ways Engineers tell tellI tellus I us that In any mechanism the simplest I design is invariably the most efficient I The rhe fewer the parts and the simpler I the operation opera thE less chance there is I Ifor for friction and wear wear Therein lies one of the advantages of the 1 I Knight motor It has fewer parts and I II I those parts are mechanically correct I II Instead of clashing valves val i I characteristic of other types raised by I blows from steel cams and seated by I strong springs the Knight motor has sliding valves Two cylindrically I shaped sleeves slee glide gently up and I II I down in a film of oil In these sleeves i iare are openings or ports I As these these- sleeves slide past acl I I other and these openings are brought directly opposite each other at the I right moment they form large passages pass pass- t ages for intake and ard exhaust I The action is positive The burnt j I gases are expelled and a fresh charge i drawn in through the large openings It Is these sleeve slee valves which give ghe the Knight motor these important advantages ad- ad I Ithe van vantages It Improves with use whereas all alii other motors deteriorate A lively powerful motor to begin with continued contin- contin I use serves to polish the sliding surfaces In In- Inthe the Knight motor and male make I it Even more smooth running more powerful more efficient I It is more as flexible as asi I any six cylinder valve alve motor Uniform compression In all ail c cylinders linders and at all speeds makes it possible to I I throttle down to a walking pace on high gear Gear shifting Is reduced to toa toa I a minimum I It is more powerful The valves are rods thE their I by connecting I action is positive Because the valvE action alion is positive anti doES doE'S not depend on the uncertain operation of springs I power increases with speed or of the motor far beyond the point where the power of other motors begins to fall offIt off It requires no adjustments There is no grinding of valves in the Knight motor no weakening of springs to require There are no valve stems to break breal no clashing parts to cause rapid wear Because of the complete combustion combustion combus- combus tion and thorough exhaust but very little carbon forms and that little Is beneficial For the carbon devitalizing devitalizing izing enemy of other motors actually builds up the efficiency of the Willys- Willys Knight motor It is quiet In operation and remains permanently quiet There is no clashing clash cash cashing ing of metal against metal There Thele Isn't even the humming of gears for silent chains are used It is economical Because It utilizes all the energy or of the gas without waste it requires less gasoline for a given amount of power An And because the flow of lubricating oil is automatIcally automat automat- regulated and is so perfectly distributed the Knight motor uses much less oil for a given mileage These briefly are the most important important im- im t of the Willys- Willys Knight motor |