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Show vu Sleeve Valve Cars Make Best Showing in Famous Contest PARIS. July 2 (By The Associated Associat-ed Press.; The Grand Prix automobile automo-bile race at Strasbourg last week and the touring car race held in connection connec-tion with the feature event have impressed im-pressed automobile experts that valve-less valve-less motors are far more Valuable than they had heretofore supposed. The automobile classic .1N0 convinced many of the experts that racing cars, exi spt for laboratory experiments, have little. If any real value. Thcv I point out that only Tour of the 18 original starters were In running condition con-dition at the end of the race and that one of the four was so far behind It had to be flagged off the course. An analysis of the race shows that eight entries in the Grand Prix event dropped out with broken valves, While In the touring car races toe nexbdey, three cars experienced valve trouble I' and abandoned the contest. Seven of the remaining cars were equipped with sleeve valve motors, which experts declare de-clare allowed them to run with far less trouble than the racing cars and only 16 per cent slower, although they weighed twice as much, were limited In their gasoline carrying capacity t( and packed regular touring equip- j mcnt. , 00 |