Modern Motor Car Practice (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Modern Motor Car Practice One approaches the writing of a preface of this nature with very mixed feelings. Since this work was first mooted, two years ago, many changes have taken place, and I am afraid that it has not been possible strictly to follow the lines originally laid down for the treatment of the book. During the War, of course, vast forward steps were made in scientific and technical matters. Actually, however, the motor industry and motor designs were in 1918 substantially as in 1914, because such matters as progress and economy were subordinate during the War period to steady and continued output and mechanical trustworthiness. At the same time we were justified in believing that the first year of peace would see almost revolutionary changes in design. The air was full of rumours and counter-rumours. There were not wanting authorities who maintained, with a recent but crowded experience of air-cooled aeroplane engines to support their contentions, that the enormous progress made in aircraft engines during the la, , t three years of war would be reproduced in motor construction, and so, they argued, the water-cooled ear engine, for various reasons, was a doomed unit. Others there were who contended that the air-cooled aero-engine had not even the slightest relationship, nor could it have, to the unit needed for car practice. There were enthusiastic designers with schemes for displacing the more orthodox air and water-cooled units with rotary and other types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.