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Excerpt from Petrol Motors and Motor Cars: A Handbook for Engineers, Designers, and Draughtsmen The historical and theoretical aspects have only been lightly treated. Both have been ably dealt with by more competent hands than the present writer's, and, moreover, they are better kept apart from such a work as this. The writer's thanks are due, and are heartily accorded, to Mr. E. J. Stoddard, of Detroit, U.S.A., for his permission to include some of his work. The writer is indebted to him for the formula for the design of cylinders (p. 12), and for his diagram (Fig. 6) of pressures and volumes. Probably many of the formulæ will be recognized as old friends, though, perhaps, in new disguises. As far as possible errors have been eliminated by careful checking, and it is thought that the book may be relied upon to give good working results. In this matter of revision material assistance has been rendered the writer by Mr. G. W. Sinclair, notably with regard to the mathematics. It has not been thought necessary to give the derivation of the various formulæ, which would not affect their utility. In addition to the general index, all the formulæ have been separately indexed to facilitate reference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.