Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-07 | Page 9 | New Steamer Uses Fuel-Oil

USES FUEL-OIL Devices That Control Mechanism Relieve Driver Driv-er of Care NEW YORK. July 7. An automobile auto-mobile that uses for fuel in the summer sum-mer the oil which propels he big ocean-going stenmenlps and the oil-burnlnif oil-burnlnif ti of locomotive. is attracting at-tracting the attention of motorist In Now York. It Is culled the Clermont f.teamei, being named after the boat which, under the direction Of Robert Fulton, made history on the Hudson more than a century ago. an-t whloh V.K the forerunner of the Steamship of today Engineers are interested m this new typo of steam cai which has practically the same linos as the snappiest snap-piest of the ganollne. car6. while It han all the power -of S steam automobile. auto-mobile. With none of the defects of th earlier steamers The automatic ; devices, which control all the func-tlona func-tlona of tho engine, are particularly Complete, according to the expert, and their working relieves the driver of all thought and care. Distillate, the fuel used for tho oil-burning oil-burning steamboats and locomotives does not flow as freely as tho lighter oil In cold weather, so it can be used In the Clermont steam car only in the summer time. It can be bought at 7 cents a gallon and in comparison with gasolini which fluctuates around SO cents a gallon will give almost tWiCe is muCh mileage, gallon gal-lon for gallon, as is secured In the best ear practice today. Kerosone Is a fuel that can be used either winter or summer In the Clermont Cler-mont and on this fuel, which is fixed in price at .about one-half tho cost of gasoline, the new steam car will give about twice the mileage, gallon for gallon, that gasoline cars give.