IN THE CLOUDS

NZ Truth, Issue 1211, 14 February 1929, Page 18

IN THE CLOUDS

Steam Cooling Not Success Yet ATtor experiments extending for more than a year, a big English motor manufacturer has about decided that steam cooling is not so simple a system of keeping an engine at the correct working temperature as some people have thought. THE boiling and condensing of the ■* water can be arranged perfectly, but the trouble is to keep the lubricating 1 oil cool enough. Apparently, with the engine as we know it to-day, and with any close modification of it, steam cannot carry out the excess heat ■ from the upper part of the cylinder walls to prevent the oil from charring. There is only one steam-cooled car on the road as yet, the de Lavaud, a rocent French production, which includes such striking departures from standard practice as an infinitely variable automatic gear and independent springing: by means of an entirely new principle. Only one or two de Lavauds with steam cooling 1 have beon produced, and they have still to show whether the system' can bo successful.

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