The complete motorist, being an account of the evolution and construction of the modern motor-car; with notes on the selection, use, and maintenance of the same; and on the pleasures of travel upon the public roads (1905)
Young, Filson, 1876-1938 · New York : McClure, Phillips & co.; London, Methuen & co. · leaf 192
work ; and inthese particulars it differs widely from the ordinary motor-car,in which the engine is placed at the farthest possible distancefrom its work. The loss of power in transmission, which is aserious mechanical defect in most motor-cars, is reduced to aminimum by the avoidance of the… … SOME TYPES OF PETROL CAR 117 which again are quite different from those in any other system.The incHnation of the steering centres results in the absorptionof all road shocks (which tend to deflect the wheel) at the tyre,and thus relieves the steering connections from all compres-
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