Harper's boating book for boys; a guide to motor boating, sailing, canoeing and rowing (1912)
Davis, Charles G. (Charles Gerard), 1870-1959, ed · New York, London, Harper & Brothers · leaf 254
ete plant than for-merly. When gasolene-engines were first put on the marketit was like buying a pair of trousers at one store, a waist-coat at another, and a coat at another. That is to say, youmight be able to match the goods, and you might not. Butnow you buy the whole outfit at one place, and… … A POWER-DORY IN THE HUDSON RIVER OFF THE COLUMBIA YACHT CLUB supplying the carbureter to mix the gas and an ignitionoutfit to discharge it which they knew to be best suited totheir motor. They made a reputation for themselves, whileother engines, perhaps just as good, were being sold with-out these…
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