Excerpt from Automobile Construction and Repair: A Practical Guide to the Design, Construction, and Repair of Automobile MechanismsProduct of the best technical brains of the country. The engine has changed from the halting, wheezy. Unreliable con traption of fifteen years ago into a perfectly dependable. Well behaved, and sweet-running mechanism which carries its owner at high or low speed. In the heat of summer or the cold of winter. Over all sorts of road with exceedingly rare periods of distress or failure. The same evolution has taken place with each part of the automobile until practically all the changes in present-day models are simply refinements of the existing mechanisms. No expenditure of money or skill has been spared to make the automobile as near perfect as pos sible. As a result. It stands today one of our best examples of well-rounded development. A device which has had more to do with our progress in production manufacturing in the last ten years than any other single machine which could be men tioned. Therefore, it behooves those who are interested in this development to study the construction and design factors with great attention. Lessons are to be learned from the evolution of this device. From the failure of that design. And the study of near perfection is always profitable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.