The White Marine Motor.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 5, 1 March 1906, Page 114

The White Marine Motor.

The White motor, illustrated below, possesses many distinguishing features. Each engine is equipped with the White patent overflow suction feed. After once opening the valve, the feed requires no further attention, and it also does away with any chance oi having gasolene leak from the valve into the boat. The White is equipped with electrical ignition and self-cleaning electrodes. Heat, rust, grease and soot cannot collect upon or in any manner affect the working of the ignitor. The contact points do not wear out or become battered with use, and do not have to be removed or cleaned. A ball-governor is used embodying the principles adopted in the Corliss engine. The speed can be instantly changed and regulated by the operator, and the governor will maintain the speed without further attention. The engine is built on the four-cycle principle, taking an explosion in each cylinder at every other revolution, and it is designed

especially for marine purposes, being made as light as practicable, and with the centre of gravity as low as possible. The method of supplying gasolene for the engine is free from danger. The gasolene tank is placed in the bow of the boat below the level of the engine. No match or flame is used in starting. A special feature of this engine is that under no condition can there be a premature or back explosion. This is an essential point in the safe and economical running of an engine. With the White method of gasolene feed there is absolutely no chance for a leak of gasolene from the feed valve into the boat.

At Belfast, Ireland, was recently tested a steam engine said to be the most economical ever built. The lowest steam consumption per horse power was 8.585 pounds, obtained m one of a series of runs. Nearly as good results were obtained m two other tests, and all were excellent. The engine is an inverted vertical cross-compound marine type, rated at 500 h.p. at 100 revolutions per minute, with a steam pressure of 120 pounds, and was built by Messrs. Cole, Marchant and Morley, of Bradford, England.