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Durant. Declares Motor
Improvements Due to Develop
ments of Race Game.
Automobile racing has been responsi
bly for the present-day small piston dls-
nlacement motor. R. C. Durant. presi
lent of the Durant . Motor company of
California, said in a letter to E. J. Cooke
jofj the Pacific Motor company. The
'tepeedways where the kings of the racing
ppbrt hae dared death 60 times a rmn
' ; )ut,' and? paid the price of science with
" kheir own lives, have been the labora
tories where these daring scientists of
the automotive industry have made their.4
, , experiments.
4 During- the present racing season there
i have been many startling: revelations of
J- 'kors carried in the world's fastest racing
.fcars.
.. "JThe 183 cubic racing motor, with its
rjdecrease in weight permitting lighter
chassis." the letter read, "was conceived
in t the minds of automotive engineers
.'Sate in 1919. By the end of 1920 this
mall motor was pronounced a success.
IThe first actual test of the small racing
-tnotor was made on the Los Angeles
peed way early In 1920. This was a mp
. .Aot built for me by Harry A. Miller
.""n4 carried in a speedster known as the
; Durant Special. There were other 183-
-Inch motors soon to make their appear
anfte and in the first gruelling race in
,whch they appeared 'these tiny motors
'isw.pt through the contest triumphantly
i aiid on through a strenuous season
7ion the board speedways and in road
jraces, piling up remarkable records for
rturdlness and speed.
4 Vpurlng the years of 1920 and 192L
theTdevelopment of the 183 inch racing
.motor engaged the attention of automo
- 'itive engineers extensively and the devel
V iJopraent of these small power plants had.
at that time, a far reaching effect on
passenger cars, commercial cars and mo
tor trucks. Although possessing but six
inches more piston displacement - than
the Ford motor, these tinj racing motors
have exceeded the records made by the
ponderous Juggernauts of the past years.
even though the . huge racing care of
former times were powered by engines
of 00 cubic inches displacement and
over.
"At Elgin, III, In the last 225 mile
road race there were nine cars to face
the starter. All finished. Eight went
through the entire contest without
stop, and without developing mechanical
trouble of any description. The late
Gaston Chevrolet was forced to stop on
account of a clogged gasoline tank, but
that could hardly be counted as a me
chanical defect.
"This record is without parallel In
racing annals ; and is hard to believe
after the long list of mechanical trou
bles registered by the speed kings in the
old races at Santa Monica. Corona and
Elgin in the days when the 450 and 600
cubic Inch motors were being used.
So successful has been the small rac
ing motor that the type has been adopted
by many passenger car and motor truck
manufacturers. These lighter weight
motors have great speed and stamina
and are very economical In fuel con
sumption. Even in racing and high
speeds around 112 to 115 miles an hour,
these motor average about 11 miles per
gallon of gasoline.
"Even now, the racing sport calls for
further experimental work for automo
tive engineers. The next step will be
the adoption of 122-inch motors and
within another season we may expect,
to see these tiny engines just as fast
as the present 183-inch Jobs. First they
had the 900 cubic Inch cars. Then they
dropped to S00, and then 450, and then
300 cubic inches. Each time the piston
displacement allowance was lowered.
were were sKeptics who said the rac
ing game would be killed as they could
not get the speed out of the smaller
jobs. But each time the smaller car
has eclipsed in speed, stamina and ef-j
ficlency, its predecessor.
"The automobile public, the manu
facturer, the automobile dealer all owe
a great debt to the racing sport ; a great
debt to the drivers who today dare
death and risk their lives in the most
hazardous of professions. A debt, that
can never be paid, is owed to those
men who have paid the price that science
has demanded paid with their lives.
TEE OREGON ij SUNDAY i JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY, ' MORNING. MAY f 21,1 1922.'
Nativei of Ceyl
lauves or Aeyion Reckon
Weajth by Nimber of Trees
use oir fkeqt;e3iti,t
The accelerator pedal, the starting
motor, generator and all other devices
bidden away beneath the hood and floor
boards, should be given attention and
lubricated at frequent intervals.
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and miles of coco-
cottages
In traveling through Ceylon the train
passes tnrough miles
nut groves, with picturesque
dotted throughout, the trees. ;
The residents, do not reckon their
wealth in rupees, but by coconut trees
they possess.
Coconut trees grow to a height of
from 60 to 100 feet with trunks two
feet in diameter. A an age of five to
seven years, each, faee produces about
Mm
ft satoM
Chemical analysis shows that all lubricating oils are
composed of about 85 carbon and 15 hydrogen
in chemical combination.
All lubricating oils form carbon when burned in the
combustion chamber. The important thing to de
termine is the amount and kind of carbon formed
by the 01I4
Some oils form a good deal of carbon, some a small
amount; some produce hard, flinty carbon which
will cause a great deal of trouble; others produce a
soft, flaky carbon that will do no damage.
The important factors determining the amount and
kind of carbon formed by a lubricating oil are the
crude from which it is made, the process and care
in refining it, its purity and stability.
(Advantages of Crude and Vacuum
Refining
Great care is exercised in selecting the crudes from
which Zerolene is made, to secure only those which
contain the most desirable lubricating values and at
the same time as little as possible, if any, of the un
desirable hydrocarbons such as wax and asphaltum.
In selecting crudes for Zerolene, the Standard Oil
Company has the advantage of its own large pro
duction of practically every type of crude oil. For
this reason this company is not compelled to use
any particular crude because it happens to be the
only one available.
These selected crudes, carefully refined by our own
patented,high-vacuum process, produce in Zerolene,
oils of the highest lubricating value, which, when
burned in the combustion chamber, develop a very
small amount of carbon of a soft, flaky nature,
which can do no harm and usually blows out en
tirely with the exhaust.
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BO riuts yearly. The nuts grow in clusf
tersfnear the bpdy of the tree and eacfi
nut iis. picked by hand as soon as it
matures. . 1
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Of the COCOnut and eat thA mt '
still I soft; when it becomes hardened it
im iw maiure ror eating and the coco
nut u DroKen up, the meat dried an2
shipped as copra.
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RAILROAD BADLY
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Many Bridges Gone and Travel on
Line Is of Great Uncertainty;
; Recovery Expected.
J By Frederick HeCormlek
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ituignx. years 'ago men still marveled
st going overland from Europe to East,
rusia. iiu oacK again in less time than
it took one way by sea and Suex. And
the great Trans-Siberian railway by
whiclii they went was one of the most
advertised, most talked-of. and best
known things In the world.
. ! I f)nd still hanging in hotel lobbies
aiiu acnei oinces in Yokohama, Peking
VTadiyostok, Tientsin, Shanghai, Harbin,
framed advertisements of Trans-Siberian
icavei, witn seductive pictures of rail
way luxury on tne stenne nd In th
J i no MOSCOW. EXDresi arriv
every xuesaay; at Vladivostok, the St.
x-oterfDurg express every Friday, and
the International every Saturday," says
the 1914 Siberian guide book. The tra
veler jeft the Baltic at 3 in the'Vfter
neon fend in ten days detrained on the
shored of the Pacific ocean. From the
Tartar City of Moscow to the Tartar
in Peking was 12 days. Time turned
around ; .the world went back to its
oiq routes. Travelers to East Siberia,
iiujiiii ivorea ana japan today go
across America or through Suez. In
th4 latest railway timetables of Japan
anu vmna, me connecting lines in
clude I those "to Petrograd" ; but no
where here has a ticket over the Trans-
Hioerian system been sold in. five years.
Where are those luxurious trains?
waere is that great railway across all
Asia .' wnen last I made use of them
I, Wen into a bank in Petrograd and 1
bought 600 roubles for about $120. Out
ofijthjjB I purchased a ticket for 120
roubles, paid a cash bonus of another
13ft roubles to the ticket agent for his
personal services, and traveled in 12
days to Harbin: at a total cost of 300
rpuDles or about 60.!
; Mistj summer- when T reached the
region of the Trans-Siberian terminus
on' jthej Pacific in these travels, an Amer
ican started by this railway "to Petro
grad. inrst he purchased one hundred
millions of roubles (RWs. 100.000.000)
fori which he was charged $3000 Amer
ican gold, it took three men and a
Cab tOj transfer this enormous "wealth"
to jthej railway station. With a large
part w ii tne new owner paid ror. a
special car from which he hoped to
derive conveniences and comforts com
parable to those which accompanied
formers trans-Siberiarl travel. Although
he still had many millions left on ar-1
rival in Moscow, roubles had declined
onej-hajf on the exchange while he was
en route. But it made no real differ
ence as tne soviet rorbade their re
demption at any price.: And as against
ISOIwhjch I had 'paid from- Petrograd to
HjiTbinj four years before, his Journey
the other way . cost more than $3000.
Since this Journey was made I have
talked J with half a dozen persons who
have been over the Trans-Siberian east
of ike Baikal; X also have received
reports! of numerous Journeys made from
Europe! : while I have traveled about
1500 : miles over:; the Pacific terminals.
andi from Colonel Johnson-of the Amer
ican railway service corps and inter
allied technical board. In chance of Si
berian railways, I have heard the whole
story of the Trans-Siberian since I last 1
passed! over it entire.
On the Arctlo-Peciflo divide in Trans-
Baikalia. in August. 1918. the Csechs I
were fhtlng on the line with armored
care, trying to hold the Rede n the di
vide until they could flank and cut them
off. I The railway men took 175 train-
loads of Reds down the Pacific slope
toward ! Chita in two- day. It astounded
t he Csechs. who .did not know wha bad
become!! of : their: antagonist and Vieyj
spent weejea trying to cigure oat now he
got away and where to. ii Colonel Johnson
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tells me such railroading could not be
Aetna la tKj TTn Shttaa ! V ? n
The Czech took good care not to mis
treat the railway people. ; The worst they
did occurred when a Cseeh officer got on
locomotive and threatened ia driver.
They had very strict regulations on the
subject ; anyone violating them was : li
able to be shot- ; The Reds had the same
practices, but the Semenoff forces al
ways took a railway man out and shot
baa for as. offense. Kolchak did the
same, and the Japanese followed suit.
And the railway "Tnen ; . they, did their
work uncomplaingly. all the way from
the Urals to Manchuria and the Sea of
Japan. A single locomotive would make
tlm entire run across Asia. 4oOO miles, its
crew eating and sleeping, i living and
saw ISO bridges between Manchuria and
the Urals, of 20-foot span to 350-foot
span, blown np and practioally destroyed.
Some were blown up as many as three
times. . The great steel . bridge over . the
Obi river Jost a span In this: way. In the
bridge over the Irtish two spans ' were
smashed, and -the Irkutsk river bridge at
Irkutsk bad two spans shot down. .
The power and-, rolllng-etock of the
railway: received a ... tremendous punish
ment. From Jane to November. 1918,
when - the Czechs were coming v out of
Russia, followed by Kolchak. fighting oc
curred along most' of the line. : Para of
the track were removed,- engines were de
railed blown up to stop rail movement
and with icars burnt and destroyed. This,
together with wear and tear. -.and the
!ta-.J:.'u..s.W.-.
parts reaching Russia, reduced the num
ber of : workable locomotives:: one-half.
And these existed thereafter in only in
different condition.: ' i , - i . ' " i i!
Nevertheless the; Trans-Siberian Rail
way has Its original rolling-feteck or the
remains of it. ' Some disappeared: fon a
time into European Russia. - But in gen
era! what It lost was lost on its own
ways.! ! its largest nridge. that over the
Venesei at Krasnyoarak ; is intact. This
is a parabolic, bow-string truss bridge of
about 10 maximum Russian bridge steel
spans of 850-foot length each. It has
weathered every strain of foreign war
and every storm of revolution, i; And ow,f
Ing to the high mechanical and oneratinir
standards of old Russia, the Trans-Si-
oertan rauway road Itself Is in as good
the
lend
working for months aboard, i These men allied embargo which prevented - repair condition, i Colonel Johnson - tells me. as (cSpyrighu.
any transcontinental line in America! i
- And there Is another thing : That gTcat
railway 1 across Asia ; stands practically :
'e in me summer sun, lined with
grsveyarasiof its locomotives, tears
plundered stores of Umber. - rpaJ
iron, awaiting the magic touch of trpn
capital and commerce, end revival of in
dustry in Russia to give It life. And Lhos
railway people always ask Tasain. Amer
icans when ; the American raQ way men
are coming back to help reconstruct the
rilway. It seldomi falls to the 'human
let to be missed by heroes and heroines,
but these heroes and heroines of the
great Trans-Siberian Railway arei wait
ing for the American Railway Service
Corns to come halr a rsA i v v h.-
. "... v-.j me reason wny.
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