Automatic Choke

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 9

Automatic Choke

QXI-: car, at least, although there r»a\ be oiliers, has what can be re garded as a very worthwhile device an aolomatic choke, whii-li very elli cienlly ope rales itself according to tin temperature of the i-ngine. As 1 1n

starter switch is contiecred with the to-celerat.or pedal, all the owner has to do to start up <oi oven tin* coldest morning is to push the throttle pedal to the limit of its travel, when the engine (provided the ignition system has been maintained in proper order) (ires immediately, and the car can be driven away without any spluttering, the automatic choke looking after tie mixture, and gradually going nut of action as the engine warms up.

This device is commended because so few people know how to handle a manual choke properly, and, due to this ignorance, the choke is sometimes used so badly on a cold morning that the cylinders are lilted with raw 'petrol and the engine becomes almost impossible to start until some at

Innst of this excess I'ue.l lias.evaporated or fallen down past the pistons into the aivmp,'where it eontaniinni.es the nil. li is highly probable Uiaiiiext vear will see even greater use of this deviro. '• .