SLEEVE-VALVE MOTORS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 166, 4 October 1927, Page 7

SLEEVE-VALVE MOTORS

USE BEING EXTENDED The features of smooth, silent action and freedom from mechanical troubles and carbon cleaning- that have long been associated with the Knight sleeve-valve motor are receiving increasing attention by the motor world every year. With Willys-Overland, Inc., reaching record sales in both the WillysKnight “70” and the Willys-Knight “Great Six,” and with the F. B. Stearns Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., doubling all past sales marks with the Stearns-Knight, public interest in the sleeve-valve principle as used in the motor-car power plant is presenting an interesting problem to other motorcar manufacturers.

The Knight engine has in recent j-ears been put to commercial use, not only in ordinary types of truck chassis, but also in many of the large passen-ger-carrying motor-buses. The exclusive right to manufacture the Knight engine for use in private passenger vehicles has been controlled in the United States by the Willys-Overland and Stearns Companies, and the privilege of manufacture is now granted to the Falcon Motors Corporation, who will produce a light Knight-motored six at moderate price. YELLOW CAB ENGINES

The esteem with which other manufacturers regard this exclusive engine is illustrated in the recent action taken by the General Motors Corporation in acquiring the Yellow Cab Manufacturing Company and announcing the use

BREAKING NEW GROUND According to an announcement just made by Mr. Carl G. Fisher, th ? American millionaire sportsman ard promoter of the classic Indianapolis *V>oo.‘* a race will be held next September for cars fitted with engines running on crude oil. The event, which is to takplace at Indianapolis, will be the first of :ts kind in history. f li* ever a race is held for orudo drivers, we could nominate a battalion of eligibles.

of the Knight engine in these taxi-cabs. These are commercial vehicles and thus not covered by the exclusive rights of Willys-Overland and the F. B. Stearns Company. The Knight sleeve-valve engine, which was invented by Chas. Y. Knight of Chicago, U.S.A.. and first used by the Dai&ler Company of Coventry. England, has since been adopted by such well-known car« as Panha rd-Ec-vassor, Voisin. Peugeot and Minerva, on th© Continent.