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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30531, 28 August 1964, Page 8

MOTORING EXPERT COMMENTS ON NEW PETROL ADDITIVE Independent Tests on GOLDEN SUPREME « W yiew t xOs Impressive Results In a published newspaper report, motoring expert Peter Greenslade had this to say about the importance of clean gg carburetion:— M 'MK , i „ . ..rr,' • * j *• c PETER GREENSLADE, motoring. Although the Government has The introduction or positive expert and writer of a nation-wide' continued to set the ceiling for the crankcase ventilation as an anti*smog motoring column who conducted octane rating of petrol, there are, measure has intensified the problem' independent tests in Christchurch on nevertheless, fewer motorists today associated with carburettor deposits. tl^S^^». r f t tZ ol cnMnUet U^i who believe that all petrols are the Waste products which were previously, mechanic. same in quality. allowed to escape into the atmosphere* ————————— through the crankcase breather are,with this method, re-introduced into automatic transmission car, the ADDITIVES DO IMPROVE PETROL the engine to be burned up in the popularity of automatic transmissions normal combustion process. Thus the in the United States has also played “It is true that basically all petrol volume of 'foreign* matter which can a considerable part in popularising is the same. The opening of the new form a deposit is further increased. carburettor detergents. If the idling refinery at Whangarei should have speed is not smooth the engine in an brought this fact home to most people. , automatic car is much more prone to But. even so, the way has been left FREQUENT CARBURETTOR stall than in a 'manual’. Yet, unless it open for the various oil companies to ADJUSTMENT SHOULD NOT BE , can maintain tbis low idling speed an market brands with distinguishing automatic car will tend to creep characteristics. This is done by adding forward, simply because there is a something to the petrol after it leaves < Tundamentally a carburettor js a S^Vels^ 11 6 “To provide the New Zealand precision instrument Provided it is “prevention is always better than motorist with an improved pre- CUr £ and obv , iously k * best to usc . a mium petrol the Atlantic Union “®. JHkelv to be called arbur f ttor detergent in a car right OU Company has introduced what “° d ® r should reallv — m ° f J itS life and makin § « calls" a’ -road performanca adjS “ for “> buM . -ThTirin fact a decent which ES&'S INDEPENDENT TESTS PROVE fa added m almost mfimtesmull quan- say _ a buM up J deposits alter INDEPENDENT TESTS PROVE titles to the petrol. Its function 1 its characteristics and so throw it out R.P.I. keep that portion of the carburettor f a j;„.fm ( ini on the intake side of the throttle J ’ 'Tn recent weeks, I have been butterfly, in a clean condition. Conducting independent tests on “Deposits that build up in the CT FAN CARBURETTOR ESSENTIAL three cars using Atlantic’s new carburettor don’t originate from the FOR EFFICIENT AUTOMATIC premium petrol, Golden Supreme petrol, but from the atmosphere. A aKrciwrccrnw with These tests have car engine takes up a tremendous TRANSMISSION shown that the detergent additive quantity of air and for optimum “Because a smooth and very low will remove exceptionally heavy performance and economy, about idling speed is essential on an deposits in 2000 to 3000 miles of 13 lb of air should combine with 1 lb- normal running, and light ones in of petrol vapour. & ~ miles or so. “The air drawn into the carburettor g ||®|| “By removing these deposits in old passes through an air cleaner, but no I L St cars, or preventing their formation in matter how efficient this cleaner is it g ■ new ones> t^js additive (which is will not trap the minute particles, of I II I|L exclusive to Atlantic), will apart from dirt m the atmosphere. It is these | LTO anything else, help to ensure that a particles that form the carburettor roRI || car will deliver the performance it has “ e P OSI ■ he KR been designed for and that after all, is W Wl something the car owner has every CARBURETTOR DETERGENTS B EglmUfua ri S ht t 0 ex P ect ” EXTENSIVELY USED IN THE U.S A. 1 S g W I passage 2 “Carburettor detergents are not morns I O "screw z—new. They have been in use in the hate iWfKlLrfji T/ A. /") ’ r United States for a number of years XaA*and are regarded as virtually essential h ’ in areas such as California where g B I there are big smog problems. —— ; —— This article is condensed from a published motoring report in the Timaru Herald on July 10th, by Peter Greenslade. 3824

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