Word: crankshafts
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Shoot a bullet through a propeller shaft, all the way through the hooks and crooks of the crankshaft...
...have been going ahead on a secret program which they call "shadow aircraft engine industry." There is nothing of an engineering nature about this genteel idea, and last week Lord Nuffield blew the lid off. He declared that under "shadow aircraft engine industry" one factory is to make the crankshafts of British airplane engines, another is to make the cylinders, a third the ignition systems and so on. Vehemently Lord Nuffield pointed out to Lord Swinton that under any such scheme an enemy bomb which destroyed, for example, the crankshaft factory, could break the chain of British aircraft engine manufacture...
...motor combustion chamber. When a car is bowling along at 40 m. p. h., its motor turns over about 2,000 times a minute, and one complete explosion lasts only 1/250th of a second. Of this brief performance the camera records 20 successive stages. The film runs continuously at crankshaft speed-up to 250 m. p. h. Light from the explosion passes through a heavy quartz window in the cylinder head to a stationary lens, thence to a series of 30 rapidly moving lenses which follow the film and hold each image motionless on it during exposure. The spark...
Pierce Arrow has redesigned its bodies, introduced "free wheeling" in all its models, improved the 132-h. p. motor in its Salon and "Group A" lines by a new nine-bearing crankshaft, improved carburetion by adding a combination "suction silencer and cold-air intake with seasonal adjustment," discarded rod brake-controls for cable controls. Price not announced. Reo introduced two new eights-"Flying Cloud" and "Reo Royale"-as well as the old "Flying Cloud" six. Bodies are French-designed, with a slanting windshield. Prices on "Flying Clouds": $1,595 up. Price of "Reo Royale...
...Graf Zeppelin made a sweet passage from Friedrichshafen (on the German-Swiss border), down the Rhone Valley, across the Gulf of Lions, toward Gibraltar. Then the crankshaft of one of her five engines broke. Near Cartagena, Spain, Commander Eckener turned her back towards Friedrichshafen...