Life — March 28, 1912 — page 47: what you’re looking at

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> the pany rid. ‘oduct ch the riage sceiv- line Stearns aseliniglat The Czar of Russia Owns a Knight-Motored Car So does the peror of Germany the pride of France—Mi- So do the ngs of England, Bel- ns [deen car—both s slee’ notor. ing cars of the Old ¢ recognized that the poppet ; summer. after two years of test- ing. the Stearns came into line. do more than €.e0-menson both who demand the best the world can offer in their pleasure cars. In Europe, the list of Knight owners is the Blue Book of Motordom. Daimler—the leading car of England rs of the —since 1908 has been a Knight-motored car. Mercedes—the monarch of the Ger- man field—is now a Knight-type car. And the Mercedes engine, which the Knight-type supplanted, was consid- ered the master engine of the world The World-Wide Effort To Get Rid of Poppet Valves are required, they v and th Five of the world’s g! nd 8.¢ ve become est ners of hi Knight Consider these facts when si warns you that the Stearns-K an experiment and cams get Timing gears ir humming can be ner who still em- ves 18 sel Every great di ploys poppet va get rid of them We adopted we regard it the Thus silence is made impossible. for ginecrs have Power and efficiency are re- But those who belittle it—to sel duced. And every desig: it. without it—are seckir r means to this end — _ The Stearns-Knight engine has no no cams, no gears poppet valves. : no springs, poppet valves form the greatest p ng in modern gasoline engines. ¢ noisy and slow and leaky. There are two in each cylinder sprin ing shut hundreds of times per mir } They require freq ding. When carbon accumulates so the valves aren't . there is waste of power. There is no carbon trouble, no valve no leakage. The action is alt w at it will consider valve motor. we A poppet We Were Swamped By the Calls for This Motor ve buil We h Stearns cars for 16 ase a new f. It compelled us to | years. They ha tained an immense tory popularity. Hundreds of men wh y ___ liveries have run these cars thousands first announcement of this of miles. And the letters we get from sleeve-valve motor doubled our sales in tribu a month. them form the highest an American car. Adds 50 Per Cent To the Engine’s Rated Power The cylinde! are 44{x54 inches. By accepted standards such s rated at 28.9 horsepower. But we guarantee that this engine will show an excess of not less than 50 ver paid the Stearns-Knight n en- Jers, no greater con- asoline. Yet half again power as the rating calls for Think wh n is is due to the a sence of poppet Won Dewar Trophy In the Greatest Test on Record bile Club of Eng- ble—a test which no poppet valve land offers the Dewar Trophy. motor ever will attempt It is offered for the greatest achieve- At the end of st—which equalled ment of the year in automobile engi- two years of ordinary service—the en- neering. gines developed more power than they at the start. And they showed not m of wear, h is the verdict of the world’s fi thority on the sleeve-valve ty or found in the Stearns-K No Leading Car Can Lead for Long Without It In 1009 this trophy was won by the Knight-type motor. Tt was won in 3 est beyond pt engineers called npossi: Stearns-Knight is The silence of thy almost uncanny. ning idly at the curb there nd or vibration to show © engine is running The car glides on the road,” says - “Equipment-> er Auto-Meter. ¢ Windshield, Model K. Ik Mohair Top and Cover. Vesta Dynamo Electric Lighting Sys- tem, Continental Q. D. Demountable Rims. (two extra im: Kieron Hora—also Bulb Horo Trunk Rack, Robe Rail, Foot Kest.etc. Touring Car Toy Tonneau Roadster j $3,500 _| | The Silent Power The K of tests, h: best cars. ype motor, after years adopted by the world’s h, to adopt valve engine as good a What is do: Daimler, Mercedes, Panhard and Minerva—in so vital a ed a poppet- men can make. one of the owners, sliding on runner Every evidence of effort to wh is accustomed is lacking in the On hills the Stearns-Knight shows that persistent power known in electric motors, In traffic one speed on | yuld know the Knight motor. ery Motor ¢: ts about this hour in motordom. It is the topic of the ing. We have interestin er Knight-type offers are welcom of the six-Cylinder this coupon you. Send it t d we will mail them to THE F. B. STEARNS COMPANY Ceyeland Dealers and Branches in 125 Principal Cities Send for Our Books matter—m soon or late st be done by all great cars cars of the future will be rs. The evidence is over- res can ever outweigh this silence, this power, this efficiency. 12 ;— —Coupon— THE F. B. STEARNS CC cleveland, Ohio 1 of your pamphlets night. rns- Name ‘Address L____] comicbooks.com