Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth annual Engineering Research Conference conducted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (initiated by President Wilson). It was to astonish their peers that Packard Engineers Woolson and Lees had flown the 650 wind-jostled miles from Detroit. It was to frustrate competitive inquisitiveness that they hooded their motor...
Five years Engineer Woolson and his research staff at the Packard plant have labored designing the motor. They had, first, the diesel principle to go on, i.e., that air can be heated by compression until hot enough to ignite a jet of fuel...
Their accomplishment, reached and tested episodically last year, is a nine-cylinder, radial, air-cooled motor. It lacks, of course, the sparkplugs, wires, magnetos, etc., essential in spark-ignited gasoline engines. A pipe line distributes oil under pressure to each of the cylinders. The present machine delivers 200 h.p., and is slightly less in diameter than gasoline radials of like power. It weighs nearly 3 Ib. per h.p., against the average 2 Ib. per h. p. of gasoline types. But it travels farther and more cheaply on a gallon of its fuel. For example, last week's 7-hour...
...Packard is guarding its new product until it can get into production and thus "get the jump" on the rest of the industry. To that end the company has already started a special 300,000 sq. ft. factory and scheduled future production. And in anticipation of new profits Packard motor car stock last week began ascending...
...Automotive Daily News. On May 15, Automotive Daily News, automobile trade paper, published a story concerning an alleged new Reo eight. Reo Motor Car Co. promptly filed suit for one million dollars libel, calling the story "utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...