Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Mexican artists; a night in my apartment where he kept a roomful of people silent until four-thirty in the morning, forgetting even their drinks, while he told how it was in Mexico during the Revolution; an evening at his house when he spoke of how a carburetor defied all reasoning power...
Rear-Engined Ballyhoo. On the first day of its New York showing, Preston Tucker's rear-engined, carburetor-less (fuel injection) Tucker '48, once called the Torpedo, drew some 15,000 paying spectators (40? for adults, 25? for children) to Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry. After two weeks on the market, Tucker's $20,000,000 stock issue was about 80% subscribed. Designer Tucker, en route to Italy to negotiate a manufacturing tie-in with Isotta-Fraschini, said production would not get under way until January at the earliest. Nevertheless, fascinated by such features...
...built autos, but Henry Ford had a special theory. Build them cheap, he said, so everyone could own one. Make them simple, he said. The Model T had only 5,000 parts, counting every last nut. Standardize the parts, he said, so that anyone could buy a new carburetor in any one of the thousands of garages which he visualized springing up across the country. The Model T was high-slung, narrow-wheeled and homely. Said Ford: "Customers can have it painted any color they want so long as it's black." He turned...
...Tucker Torpedo, a completely new car designed by a completely new company (the Tucker Corp.), looks like a backward bullet. It has a 150-h.p., six-cylinder aircraft-type engine in the rear, a fuel-injection system eliminating the carburetor, a new type of drive shaft and transmission. It is expected to weigh some 800 lbs. less than the average car, cost from...
Roads, Restrictions & Rates. Alaskans had scores of grievances. They wanted roads-one overall-clad woman dramatized the request by tramping in to see the Secretary, announcing she had left her tractor mired to the carburetor two miles outside of town. Gold operators complained that the Army hired their help away. Hundreds asked for release of Government lands, an end to restrictions which discourage homesteading. Alaska was in terrible need of hospitals, particularly tuberculosis hospitals. And there was always the subject of high freight rates...