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By the first of the year, Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. expects to bring out a new line of "Aero" passenger cars that will be "very unlike the jeep" or the jeepster. Willys said last week that its three Aero models will be streamlined, with "long, flowing lines and low silhouettes...
No hunches, but the cold facts of the world demand for oil are behind Gulf's expansion. Swensrud, who has already built the world's largest "cat" (catalytic) cracker at Gulf's main refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, will now build a still bigger one (63,000...
Powered by a 300-h.p. V-8 engine, Le Sabre at present has a top speed of 130 m.p.h., with minor adjustments is expected to do 150 m.p.h. The 10-to-1-compression engine runs on a mixture of alcohol and premium gasoline. Built of light aluminum and magnesium alloys...
Even in such a small space it is possible to set up several different testing arrangements. Bridgman has conducted tests on tension, compression, bending, punching and hardness. The interior of the laboratory is connected to the outside world by seven electrically insulated leads. The leads are connected to instruments inside...
In Tulsa, Okla. this week, before the American Petroleum Institute, General Motors planned to take the wraps off a still more advanced high-compression engine-the "19XX"-which answers the oilmen's objections. Like Kettering's, it has a 12-to-1 compression ratio, but it operates on...