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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 19 January 1926, Page 10

"SHE!" Having chased the maiden in vain for a considerable time, Percy was naturally elated when she consented to allow him to escort her to the local motor cycle club dance. He accordingly conveyed the damsel thither in his sports side-car outfit, and toward the middle of the evening found the lady a seat in a secluded' corner while he went in search.of refreshments. Now it chanced that upon- rounding the curtain which screened the corner he! met a pal who immediately accosted him with: - . "Hello, have you brought her?" And Percy, immediately forgetting his : quest, : and the fact that the damsel was- ■within hearing, enthused thus: "Rather! I'm running her /regularly now,, you know. Bit expensive to' keep up; sucks up the juice like a fish. She's apt to be a bit noisy, too, but she's fast, which is the main thing as. far as I'm concerned." "By the way, I'm not keen on these shiny bulbous noses, they take a lot of keeping clean, and look fearful when they're spotty, which is the rule in her case. Still, you can't expect too much considering how she's been knocked about. She'd do with a jolly good wash; I shall have to see about it some time, though I hate the .job. "It's very -warm to-night, isn't .it? I shall choke her going home if I'm not careful; she's so jolly sensitive on; the throttle, you know." And Percy is still wondering whyhis lady cut him for the Jest of the* even-' ing, and -why she went home on the back of his rival's Pig Squeak. AN EFFICIENT ENGINE. Efficient design and the application of supercharging has resulted in the production of a 12-cylinder Delage- racing ensine which ij rated at 19.5 h.p., but which develops nearly 200 b.h.p. The diminutive cylinders 'have a bore of about 2} in, and the total capacity of the engine is 1985 cm., or less-than that of the übiquitous Ford. Yet this engine can run up to over 7000 revolutions per minute. At 5000-revolutions the output is 150 h.p. These high speeds are possible on account of the email size of the various moving parts. In 1922 Delage racing engines of the same capacity as the latest model had a maximum speed of 4500 revolutions and an output of 70 h.p. Far-reaching claims' are made for the Cyclone carburettor, a,new instrument manufactured by a-Belgian-firm The most interesting are the instantaneous automatic adaptation of the carburettor to any kind of fuel without chan<nnz jets or choke tube, the same automatic adaptation to engines of any speed, from 100 r.p.m. to 6000 r.p.m.. and the mainl tenance ot % a perfect mixture- regardless of the density of the air. The design of the instrument follows novel lines, two Aenturi tubes being incorporated. There -are no . small .orifices which are liail eta,be.choked in -jiy.