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OF CONFIDENCE
tCo-Opcration and Enthusiasm
Are Urged by Head of
Kissel Motor Car
Company.1
By G. A. KISSEL.
President Kissel Motor Car Co.
The war is now over and our bat
tle for right and justice has been
won. Our faces are now turned
towards a new era of unwonted
promise. We have a large debt, due
to war expenditure, but happily we
have plenty of money to pay it with
Our country is physically uninjured,
our factories, buildings, fields and
machinery are intact.
The Automobile Show this year
finds America with more wealth,
mineral and agricultural, than in the
whole of Europe, and we will start
more prosperously and with much
greater possibilities than any other
nation on the globe.
With all these facts before us,
s it puts the question of cheerfulness
and satisfaction for the close of
- 1919 entirely up to ourselves. The
average American business man, as
well as the financial powers, have
every confidence in this country and
its recuperative powers, and are
more than Villing to go ahead and
take those average risks needed to
proceed without delay.
To Get and Share.
It is up to us of the motor car industry-manufacturing,
wholesale or
retail, to make our plans now for
Jetting our just share of business
ust so would our country lose its
present world power position if the
financial and business interests of
our government did not plan ahead
and proceed with such plans.
We can all obtain the greatest' re
sults by concentrating to a definite
purpose or ideal, then with it, the
fullest co-operation of all interested
Just so did Woodrow. Wilson do
when he set out that "Right and
justice was the purpose and ideal
which mean Americanism," regard
less of life or financial loss, and con
centrated on that at all times, as
well as co-operated with and had
other countries co-operate with us
to that end, even for the future by
the establishment of thejeague of
nations.
To Concentrate on a Design.
It is our purpose to make good
automobiles; to supply that trade
calling for a better car a car of in
dividuality of design, detail, finish
and appointment To that end, we
will concentrate on one-passenger
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car chassis namely, the custom-built
chassis, with several body styles
making such betterments as has
been, necessary to have it as nearly
100 per cent perfect as possible. The
prices will be moderate, yet always
consistent with material and labor
conditions consistent with material
and to enable us to maintain that
class of mechanical perfection with
bodies of personal refinement and
appointment necessary for a class
product consistent to enable us to
use only the best materials and
methods, treating such materials" to
insure long life consistent to en
able us to have as near 100 per cent
perfection as possible. The all-year
car which has made possible motor
ing in comfort during all M months
in the year, will be continued in two
or -three models on the same custom-built
chassis. .
When our government called for
assistance, we gladly offered our
plant, organization and facilities,
even to sending to the front 250
men. When we were asked to pro
duce a large daily output of trucks
on a very short notice, we first
thought it impossible, but with the
American spirit of concentration, co
operation and hard work, we were
able in a few months to do what
previously seemed impossible.
It is with the same spirit of en
thusiasm and co-operation that we
are now proceeding with a definite
deal ahead of us.
Time to Change Subject
From War to Good Roads
By WALT MASON.
We've talked so long of shell
and shot, of captains and of kingsl
The time has come at last, I wet.
to speak of other things. Let's
turn our thoughts from Petrograd
to daces nearer home: we need
good roads and need them bad, and
lfence this stirring pome, tor years
we've struRgled through the muck
weariness and grief, and only said;
when we were stuck, "It is no time
to beef." We floundered through
the muddy pools, across the reefs
and bars, and lost our horses and
our mules, and mired our costly
cars. We said. "Until this war shall
cease, our woes can't be discust; but
when arrives the dawn of peace
we'll have good roads or bust.
We've talked so long of battle
fronts that we may find it hard to
turn to other milder stunts; our
spirits may be jarred. We've -ailed
so long at Kaiser Bill that we may
think it stale to talk of grading
down a, hill or filling up a vale
But it is wise to talk good roads
instead of bones and blood; the
farmers cannot haul their loads be
cause of endless mud. There is no
bottom to the pike when comes a
sudden shower; I cannot scorch as
I would like, at SO miles an hour.
We've harped so long on treason
vile its's hard to break away; but
we should talk good roads a while
and start the work today.
1ET Sarah Bernhardt en te a
' room and instantly her per
sonality will dominate the gath
ering. The same holds true of the
ROAMER, no matter in what company
it is driven or parked. If you tool a
ROAMER through traffic or journey
with it about the boulevards or high
roads, you will Be conscious of &n un
flaggingly flattering homage of glances
and the one thought uppermost in the
minds of everyone you" pass will be: "I
wonder what car that is?"
You can ransack the country and not
find another American -made car like
the ROAMER. If you wantec to rival
its utter distinction you would iave to
go abroad to find it in the RolL Royce,
the Fiat, the Isotta Fraschini, the Lancia
and the DeDion Bouton.
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See the ROAMER at Booth "B"
in the Annex at the Show,
Trial run by appointment
Victor Motor Company
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2523 Farnun St
Proper Motor
Efficiency
Poor Combustion in Cylinders Causes Waste of Power;
Should Buy Gasoline Produced by Refining Com
pany and Be Sure of Getting Best Grade on
Market
By DONALD M'LEOD LAY.
Although the war is virtually over
and gasless Sundays have con
tributed an Interesting chapter to
the ancient history of American mo
toring patriotic owners will not
readily forget the lessons of econ
omy and the efforts to obtain max
imum efficiency accentuated in so
many ways under war conditions.
It may be timely, therefore, to point
out the most important factor in
the situation the character and
quality of the gasoline.
On stopping to think the matter
over, it is not difficult to realize that
it makes a very great difference in
the amount of fuel consumed by any
motor car if the combustion which
takes place "in the cylinders is not
complete. It means that a large
proportion of the driving energy, or
power, . centained in an inferor
grade of motor fuel.'which, by the
way, is usually . unbranded, is not
utilized, but goes to waste. Instead
of aiding in operating the car, the
imperfectly vaporized, unburneo
portion simply increases the sever-
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ity of the wear and tear on the me
chanism. It forms carbon deposits
on the valves and in the combustion
chambers and, in liquid .form, pene
trates to the crankcase, where it in
creases friction and reduces power
by "cutting" the protecting film of
lubricating oil away from moving
parts.
On the other hand, when the mo
torist makes it a practice to buy
gasoline produced by a reliable re-
Distributors
THE OMAHA SUNDAY
Fuel Gives
And Economy
fining company he may be sure of
getting the best grade of motor
fuel that is commercially practical
under present conditions. -He is
certain of maximum fuel economy,
provided his carburetor is correctly
adjusted, and he knows that he is
keeping the proportion of waste to
the minimum.
Considered Uniform.
Many motorists consider gasoline
as a standard, uniform product
Either they do not knpw, or they
pay no heed to, the fact that, all
over the country, the motor fuel
of' today varies even more widely
in composition and characteristics
than in price.
It is because of this carelessness
that motorists frequently are in
duced to buy cheap gasoline, un
supecting that inferior fuel usually
contains compounds of sulphur or
other foreign matter. Such is the
chemical constituency of these ex
traneous compounds that they break
down under the intense heat ' and
high pressure of the combustion
chamber, forming acids, which,
even in minute quantities, have an
injurious effect on the engine and,
besides pitting and otherwise dam
aging valves and valve seats, they
eat into the piston metal and cylin
der walls. (
As a rule, these deleterious results
of combustion from inferior gaso
line soon penetrate the crankcase, in
juring the piston and rings on the
way. When they mingle with the
lubricating oil they cause disintegra
tion of the oil and formation of fur-
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ther injurious matter. Thus lubrica
tion is impaired to a marked extent
and friction, loss of power and wear
are greatly increased. x
Covers Wide Range. .
Gasoline is not a homogeneous
liquid. It is merely a physical mix
ture of hydrocarbons, frequently
covering a wide range of volatility.
In other words, various parts of the
mixture vaporize at different tem
peratures under identical conditions.
In this reJpect gasoline corresponds
to crude oil. from which it is de
rived. Crude oil, also, is not a chemi-
Hudson
cal combination but a blend of com
pounds made up of hydrogen and
carbon.
Of course, crude oil differs in
properties and characteristics, as it
is obtained from wells widely scat
tered throughout the world. It na
turally follows that the gasoline pro
duced from each crude retains the
peculiar properties' of its parent
crude. For this reason, many gaso
lines, as primarily refined, are not
suitable for use as fuel in an inter
nal combustion engine. In these
cases it is necessary to mix in gaso
line produced from other crudes pos
sessing the requisite volatility or
other property which is lacking.
Natural gasolines are those ob
tained by the first step in refining
heating the crude in a large vessel
called a crude oil still. First, the
heat drives off the dissolved gases,
and then the lightest gasoline. These
are followed by heavier gasolines
ai, they vaporize under the increas
ing heat. Pipes carry the gasoline
into, condensers which are kept
cool by water, where they resume
liquid form.
Cracked Gasoline.
Cracked gasolines are rapidly
comingN into more common use.
These are produced in a number of
different ways, some of the widely
used methods being, the Rittman,
Burton and Hall processes. The
methods of "cracking" gasoline are
more or less complicated and may
be summed up as based on the prin
ciples of pressure, decomposition by
heat and distillation.
Casing-head gasolines are obtained
by condensing gases from crude oil
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wells under pressure. These gases
are sometimes passed through heavy
oils which absorb the gasoline.
These are then released by distil
lation. "Casing-head" gasolines are
so volatile that they evaporate too
readily for commercial use. Thus
they are almost always blended with
heavier grades for use as motor
fuel.
When motoring first became pop'
ular i rapidly increasing demand
was created for gasoline, which, up
to that time, had a comparitively
small market. Motor vehicles multi
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Super - Six
plied so fast that refiners gradually
came to a realization that commer
cial production of highly volatile
gasoline on a scale sufficient to meet
the demand was not practicable.
Therefore they set about combin
ing, or blending, gasoline varying
in gravity and having boiling points
that covered a wide range of tem
peratures. Graduallyv Changed. '
Naturally, both carburetors and
engines have been gradually
changed to meet these variations in
fuel conditions. This factor, indeed,
has exerted a very strong influence
on modern engine design, and has
even figured to a considerable .ex
tent among considerations, in car
design. Hot air intakes, hot water
jacketed manifolds and carburetprs
and many other methods -of pre
heating and otherwise facilitating
vaporization of fuel have been
prominent features of automotive
engineering during the last few
years.
Frequently motorists have blamed
the gasoline when the whole trouble
was due to the absence of the nec
essary equipment for preheating the
fuel before it was fed to their en
gines. Thus, most f the established
brands of gasoline for automobile
use now on the market are blends
of various kinds and grades of gas
oline. The manufacturers aim to
produce a fuel that (a) has suffi
cient volatility for starting the en
gine; (b) sufficient body to prevent
loss by evaporation to any appre
ciable extent when in containers;
(c) does not contain injurious for
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nPHE perfected valye-in-head
motor of the Nash
Six has demonstrated the fact
that it is powerful, economical
and quiet to an unusual degree.
Its unusual power, economy
and quietness place it in the
front rank of America's lead
ing motor car values.
See the full tine of Nash Passenger Cars witn '
Perfected Valve-in-Head Motor at the Show.
NASH SALES CO,
10th Und Howard Sts.
HLUeMRS:AT.UOLUME.PR!CE3
eign compounds; (d) means max
initim output from the crude.
These makes of gasoline are sub
stantially uniform in character and
properties, subject, of course, to dif
ferences arising from varying refin
itig processes used in their produc
tion. Then, too, it is possible to use
much heavier gasoline in a motor
car engine in the warm summer
weather than in the late fall and
winter months. Refiners, as i rule
take advantage of this by regulat
ing the character of their products
accordingly.
Should Start Easily.
For successful use as fuel for an
internal combustion engine it is ei
sential that gasoline should contain
enough of the more volatile grades
to start the engine easily at normal
temperature. After the engine is run
ning the heat of operation renders
carburetion and combustion of the
fuel much less difficult. The heavier
components of such gasoline, how
ever, should not have excessively
high evaporation points. If this con
dition obtains, these heavier "ends"
as the oil men call them, are vapor
ized in the combustion chamber, re
sulting in impaired operation of the
engine. When gasoline that is only
partially vaporized is ignited in the
engine it is never entirely burned.
It is important for the motorist
to know whether the gasoline he
uses is entirely vaporized and burn
ed in his engine or is only partially
burned. When the latter is the
case the heavier constituents are us-
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ually forced down past the pistons,
cutting the lubricating oil off the
cylinder walls on the way. The in
jurious effect of gasoline in the
crank case oil has already been
pointed out. Incidentally, when
these heavier parts of the motor
fuel are forced past the pistons they
leave behind a generous portion
of their large carbon content in the
form of deposit on' the cylinder
walls and pistons.
A half million feet of lumber can
be accommodated at one time in the
huge drying kilns employed at the
Willys-Overland plant in Toledo.
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ottr . $1499
SdM. ..... $33S9
Com $333$
Cm $1649
Industrial Alcohol
May Become New Fuel
for Use in Motor Cars
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Although thir.country produces
about two-thirds of the petroleum of
the world and produced more gaso
line last year than ever before, in
vestigations are being carried on by
the National Automobile Chamber
of Commerce with a view to ex
ploiting the use of mixtures of al
cohol and gasoline in motor vehi
cles. The production of industrial
alcohol on a large scale would help
materially to increase the supply ft
motor fuel.
Nearly all theautomobiles in Nor
way and Sweden are operating on
alcohol made from waste sulphite
liquor from paper pulp mills. Alco
hol is also used in automobiles in
Spain, where the sale of gasoline for
use in passenger cars has been pro
hibited. Alcohol can be produced at the
paper pulp mills in this country at a
cost of 15 to 20 cents a gallon at the
present time, and if all the paper
mills suitable for the purpose were
equipped with the necessarv plants
they would have a combined ca
pacity of 15,000.000 gallons a year.
Waste from sugar mills and waste
vegetable products provide other
sources for the produg(tion of alco-
Light Four
hoi. Distilleries and breweries
whose business is being curtailed
by legislation against the use of
grain for manufacture of intoxi
cants, have the apparatus and skilled
labor requisite for the production of
industrial alcohol from these wastes.
They should welcome an opportuni
ty to continue operation, utilizing
such products.
Alcohol can be blended with gaso
line to produce a suitable fuel that
will avoid the difficulties of starting
a cold motor on alcohol alone, and
without any change in the car
buretor or the compression of the
engine.
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