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Show Carburetor Adjustment Is Need of Automobile Automobile owners who are having trouble getting mileage out of their gasoline consumption may find that by having their carburetors adjusted carefully Increases In fuel economy can be obtained. This Is the advice given by the Associated As-sociated Advertising flubs In a bulletin bul-letin issued by Its vigilance committee commit-tee reporting investigation of claims made for a carburetor advertised us sure to save one-half to on" third on fuel and to Im-rcase the .wt of any rno'.or from .'!0 to 50 per cent. The bulletin states that tests made by the United States bureau of standards stand-ards was to the effect that the extravagantly ex-travagantly advertised carburetor showed no marks of superiority over others, and that the government bureau bu-reau staled great numbers of automobiles automo-biles are being operated with a eonsld-erable eonsld-erable excess of fuel under average conditions, and careful readjust moid of the carburetorH would In many cases bring about worth-while economy. econo-my. The government bureau ulsc pointed out that the apparent superiority superi-ority of some carburetors for which overdrawn claims are made Is due to the care with which they are adjusted. |