MOTORING.
The automobile fraternity have long waited for some inventive- mind to give them, an "ideal motor," one free from tho multitudinous moving, frictional, breaking parts, so, common in the present type of reciprocating engines. This, want is not alone voiced by automobilists, but -it is still more vigorous on the -part of. aviators, ali of whom agree that the motors are the only present drawback to safe and successful flight. ' '-. Word comes from New York of a new invention, now being patented, which appears to be a move in the right direction,' viz., a turbine gasoline motor, one calculated to eliminate much of the, worry so common in present types. Unlike the reciprocating engine, which uses one-half, of .the power .generated, to overcome friction, , a turbine motor applies its power to the periphery of a perfectly balanced rotating wheel and thence .direct to. the main drive shaft, thus conserving tho power for work.
The excellence of' this turbine motor may be found in its simplicity of construction and management, the operator can go .ahead or back- up without leaving his seat. As there.is no "dead centre" on a turbine it starts either way . from all positions.—" Denver Post." ....
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 5
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199MOTORING. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 5
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