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Title: Automotive industries
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Automobiles Aeronautics
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Chilton (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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adjustable seats affordin respect of leg reach, a consideration by no means un-unimportant is the fact that the front seats being re-movable, the floorboard can be made removable also toenable the chassis details below to be reached with ease.This fact has been borne in mind in several cases whereadjustable seats are fitted, though the advantage con-cerns mainly those chassis in which the gearset ismounted amidships, and is, therefore, usually located,with the transmission brake and propeller shaft joint,under the front seat. Users who have had experience with adjustable andremovable seats point out the great desirability of theseats, whether they are separate or formed as a unit,fitting closely to the body sides, otherwise the frontpassengers suffer from additional draughts which are en- March 3, 1921 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES THE AUTOMOBILE 503 c7io.l.cUnit seat used on Austin carxOiux slotted plate locking, device. cf\<^2. Seat arrangementronKile^ car showing MOingnut locking device
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^i£.6.folding seats onj41bert car are onlj) 9inches high and are attached to floor b\) cap screws courted to swirl around the lega and between the seatsand the body. Another point to be borne in mind is that a closely Se Xli?V^at\Un,leSS ia in some wa* attached tothe Sides of the body, is liable to hammer and rattle against the latter when vibration and frame distortionhave their natural effects. Hence the Austin arrange-ment (which, by the way, is not unique), wherein thescat is fastened to the body framing, is not without spe-cial merit. 504 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIESTHE AUTOMOBILE March 3, 1921 High Thermal Efficiency in Airplane Service Advantages and disadvantages of two types of mixture control devicesare discussed, and test data showing the fuel saving made possible bythe use of higher air to gas ratios are given, as are also particulars show-ing the corresponding effect on the power developed. By S. W. Sparrow* DETAILS of design of certain foreign engines,whose high average effici

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