A NEW WORD FOR MOTORIC VOCABULARY In future motorists will be ah s ® ® discuss combustion and what g - in the combustion chambers ° engines much more fluently wi • .« aid of the new term This word supplies a long-felt • as will be seen from its define?? (i{ "Possessing increased power, a gas that, being stable to n high compression. will ‘ k tz neither audibly nor silently k a high-compression engine. f a li The words “knock” or ' P™ v t ,- c short in that they express mere*. audible result of incorrect n* tion, and considerable power word “appotenic.” expresses a v o; - which solves the problem n ? t t( ftb« the cfcudible knock, but also t ~,pr?* inaudible or silent knock wn» . ir€ - sents a loss of power which quently serious. T - Xf tr MCTO? It is claimed that SPIRIT, to which the word is applied, will withstand te .Jw 5 in a combustion chamber " t 0 beat cause motor spirits less »® < ?' and compression to knock a glibly or silently. This wor „ a v >U la ■>' come addition to the vo ti* motorists, providing as •« “si* means of more intelligib - ji a-, what to-day is a bis m-oblem . taining motor-engine effic
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 12
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