Show AUTO RAGE RACE INSPIRED MOTOR START STARl By United Press WASHINGTON July Tuly 13 When When Ralph I do de Palma famous auto racer decided edt to 1 ring ringa a Mercedes 1 motor to America AmerIN and anti win the 1914 Memorial day clay race at Cincinnati CIT Cin he sowed the seed which tod today Y t is promising to harvest thousands of ty motors to beat ny t. t This Is how It happened De Dc Palma witnessed the Grand Prix auto classic In Paris in 1913 won b by a made German Mercedes Mercedes and and he decided to slip ne of the motors into this country country coun coun- try and surprise his rivals here He did but the motor didn't function properly at the Cincinnati race so he 3 sent It back to Germany for tuning re It J was na was returned to him here shortly before the great war broke out in the fal f I 1914 1014 I Henry B B. B Joy head of ot a great automobile automo automo- bile concern In this country now a I tl 1 rr colonel n In the signal corps ok I De Dc Palmas Palma's motor and Ins belle America Amen Ameri ca might be drawn Into the war started f fI work nn ii n an aeroplane engine modeled I I In some vital Ital respects ts after the Meri Mer- Mer i 1 cedes S 'S I 1 By Bythe the time lime the United States entered the war Joy To had developed several models models models mod mod- els and it was in June 1917 that these h models were laid before a group of engineers engineers en- en in Washington on They closeted themselves with plans and specifications for a full fun week and out of their deliberations deliberations delibera delibera- the first Liberty motor was born Since that day there have been many man manc c Intricate changes in the mechanism of f the Liberty motor One plant devoted a total of hours to changing tools tools' made necessary by altered specifications As a result It was not until April of this year that quantity production could be started in earnest The first 2000 moton motor mo mo- tor ton have been completed and it Is es estimated estimated es- es that another year will see completed Liberty planes flying ir In France Since the German manufacturer sent I Ralph de Palma his Mercedes engine the i Germans have used that make in their aircraft with some slight improvement I The Americans toda today however are using r. r l I an engine bearing some of or the vital characteristics char char- chart t t I of the Mercedes hut but believed far superior in every way De Dc Palmas Palma's j motor however was responsible for forthe the J. J early Inspiration in building an American a ir r engine and is therefore Indirectly r responsible for Americas America's promised s sit sit- u in the air |