Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after his success with his first naphtha-gas boat, he and Hank tried a 2-h.p. Sintz gasoline engine. "It never ran well," says Chris's son Jay, 74, "until Charles Sintz showed up from Grand Rapids two years later with a gadget he called a carburetor...
...balance higher selling prices. The restyled Chevrolet led the way with a new six-cylinder engine that "gives up to 10% more mileage," also offered eight other engines ranging up to 315 h.p. Plymouth offered four engines from 132 h.p. to 305 h.p., had a new gas-saving carburetor and new rear-axle-gear ratio, which it said "contribute to 10% greater economy of operation." Ford came out with four engines ranging from 145 h.p. to 300 h.p., said its lowest-powered, six-cylinder model will get better than 20 miles...
...Leonard S. ("Luke") Hobbs, 61, one of the world's top aviation engineers, will retire next April as vice chairman of United Aircraft Corp. Wyoming-born Luke Hobbs, an engineering graduate of Texas A. & M., designed the carburetor for Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. As chief engineer for Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, which grew into United's engine division in 1935, he developed the R-2800 Double Wasp, workhorse engine of World War II, and the R-4360 Wasp Major, most powerful aircraft piston engine ever made. Pratt & Whitney was a late starter with postwar jets...
...Classic Cars. The paramount importance of style, so evident in 1958 models, was slow to make itself felt on automakers. In the years when buying, driving and tinkering with the family car were a proud male prerogative (and when most car owners could still distinguish a carburetor from an oil filter), the big sales features were dependability and technical improvements-plus the giddy growth of the U.S. itself. Every new road opened up a new market; every new mechanical advance-hydraulic brakes, balloon tires, steel to replace wood and leather-brought the new buyers flocking to Detroit's door...
...Drive-It. Perfect Circle Corp. has developed a speed-control device which automatically drives a car at a steady, preset speed. Planned as optional equipment on 1958 Chryslers, Speedostat electrically links the foot-throttle, carburetor and transmission to a dashboard dial on which the driver sets the speed he wants. In emergencies, he can instantly break automatic control by touching the brake pedal...