Old Carburettors

Progress, Volume IX, Issue 4, 1 December 1913, Page 839

Old Carburettors

Owners of old cars fitted with the original carburettors should bear in mind that modern vapourising devices are so infinitely superior that in nine cases out of ten it would pay to scrap the old carburettor and fit in a new one. The leading defects of the more ancient types of carburettor are

that they do not facilitate easy starting, they are not flexible to the extent of giving correct mixture at various speeds, and finally they are wasteful of petrol. The expenditure of a five pound note will suffice to defray the cost of purchasing and fitting a modern carburettor, and it is safe to say that the advantages thus obtained ‘will justify the expenditure.

Old cars are such a drug on the market now that it really does not pay to sell them so long as they are reasonably serviceable, and there is no question but that, by an outlay on a modern carburettor, their real and apparent value becomes greatly enhanced. It must be recollected that a carburettor which shows poor fuel economy is not merely inherently extravagant, but it causes the engine to foul, and so increases the cost of the maintenance of that unit. An extravagant carburettor, in other words, spells overheating, high lubricating-oil consumption, carbonisation, and other incidental troubles.