The internal combustion engine; being a text book on gas, oil and petrol engines, for the use of students and engineers (1909)
Wimperis, Harry Egerton, 1876- · New York, Van Nostrand · leaf 266
cussed under thetitle of flexibility. A common speed for full load workingis 1,000 revolutions per minute, and it is often convenientto be able to run at much lower speeds. Throttlingthe mixture has this effect and with a six-cylinderengine there should be no difficulty in getting down to… … be to change speed as it is called. This brings us to the con-sideration of the mechanism by which the power of a petrolengine is transmitted to the road wheels of a car. The reader 246 THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE will best understand this by forming a picture in his mind(see Fig. 80) :—The…
Internal combustion engines
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