GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE ITS DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE A PRACTICAL, COMPREHENSIVE TREATISE EXPLAIN- INVALUABLE TO MOTORISTS, STUDENTS, MECHANICS, REPAIR MEN VICTOR W. PAGÉ, M.E. AUTHOR "THE MODERN GAS TRACTOR, "AUTOMOBILE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, ETC. LIGHTING " CIENCE 1918 EDITION A New Book From Cover to Cover REVISED, ENLARGED AND RESET EDITION, SHOWING ALL RECENT IMPROVEMENTS THE ILLUSTRATIONS DEFINING CONSTRUCTION OF PARTS ARE MADE FROM ACCURATE NEW YORK THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY 2 WEST 45th STREET な 205 iP13 1918 p 02 COPYRIGHTED, 1917, 1916, 1915, 1914, 1913 AND 1912, BY All illustrations in this book have been specially made by the Printed in U. S. A. COMPOSITION, ELECTROTYPING AND PRESSWORK PREFACE TO 1918 EDITION The favorable reception of this treatise by the motoring public has been gratifying, to say the least, and in presenting the seventh edition of this work to the motoring fraternity the author wishes to thank those readers and reviewers who have made suggestions for improving or enlarging the scope of the exposition. The improvements in the automobile during the five years this work has been on the market have been more in the nature of refinement of body lines and improvement of mechanical detail than any radical change in principles or basic design. The most pronounced tendency is the adoption of eight and twelve-cylinder V motors, such as used in aeroplanes, to automobile propulsion, but this is not general. All latest engine types and auxiliaries are described in this edition. While the major portion of the 1918 edition of this work remains unchanged, owing to the highly developed state of the art at the time. it was prepared, it has been found desirable to include much additional matter in this latest edition in order to keep pace with the progress of the industry. The entire work has been thoroughly revised and a number of corrections made in the text. Much supplementary matter has been added relating to ignition, the action of generators and basic principles on which they operate, so this subject should be more easy of comprehension. Entirely new material has been written on tractors in three- and four-wheel forms, cyclecars and agricultural tractors or automobile plows; combination gasoline-electric drive, front-wheel and four-wheel drive and steer systems, and other important developments in power-propelled vehicles. The discussion of power transmission methods has been augmented by consideration of the skew bevel gear and two-speed direct drive rear axle, as well as several new forms of worm gear drive. The subject of 3 |