QUICX MOTOR CARS.
IMPROVEMENT IN DESIGNS. Probably nothing did more to create prejudice against motoring and motorists in the early days than the appalling noise which was made by so many cars and the disgusting smell which often accompanied it. Happily, as the years have passed, the odorous nature of exhaust gases has been eliminated, while increased knowledge of design has reduced mechanical noises, so that they hardly exist. In addition, the increasing use of multi-cylinder engines, and the wide adoption of efficient silencers have led to almost noiseless exhausts. Even two-cylinder engines today can be made to run so quietly that they could not give offence even to the most virulent anti-motorist, while it is possible .to silence a single-cylinder engine so that it is almost inaudible. Car owners, fortunately, aye not bad offenders on the question of exhaust noise, the vast majority of them having outgrown the belief that noise signifies power, and that silence is necessarily achieved only by sacrificing engine efficiency.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 7
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165QUICX MOTOR CARS. Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 137, 17 June 1926, Page 7
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