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foot above the carburetor. A fuel-mixture control handle from the 

 constant-level, float carburetor extends through the floorboard. To 

 its left is a spring-returned pedal for reversing the transmission. A 

 lever at the right of the body shifts the forward gears of the trans- 

 mission. The central position of the lever is for neutral, the rear 

 position is for low speed, and the forward position is for high speed. 

 Beneath the right side of the floorboard, and extending to the rear of 

 the car, is a long, narrow gasoline tank. The muffler, which extends 

 from the front of the car to the rear, is located in the center of the car, 

 directly to the left of the gasoline tank. 



The 7-horsepower engine, of four separately cast cylinders, has a 

 bore of 314 inches and a stroke of 314 inches and is equipped with 

 integral horizontal cooling fins about one-sixteenth of an inch thick 

 spaced three-eighths of an inch apart. The crankcase is of ferrous 

 material and has a large, rectangular access cover at the front. The 

 flywheel and hand crank are on the right end of the crankshaft. 



The intake manifold on the rear side of the engine is mounted trans- 

 versely, with the vertical riser containing the throttle valve at its 

 center. The four exhaust pipes in front of the cylinders drop to a 

 manifold, which connects to a pipe leading back to the muffler. There 

 is one automatic, overhead intake valve and one pushrod-operated, 

 overhea dexhaust valve in each cylinder. Each of the four push rods 

 passes through the horizontal portion of its exhaust pipe. 



The camshaft is driven by external spur gears adjacent to the fly- 

 wheel. The original ignition equipment has been replaced with a 

 low-tension distributor, which is driven by the left end of the cam- 

 shaft through external gears. An arm, mounted eccentrically on the 

 timer gear, operates a ratchet-controlled, mechanical, pump oiler in 

 front of the engine. The oiler discharged into the crankcase and, 

 when adjusted properly, kept the oil level at the proper height. 

 Splash lubrication was employed within the engine. A reserve oil 

 tank next to the mechanical oiler kept the oiler filled. 



This car was restored by the Ikiuseum staff early in 1947, at which 

 time it was disassembled, cleaned, reassembled, and refinished. The 

 leather upholstery was replaced, the woodwork was repaired where 

 necessary, and the entire car was refinished with varnish-color brushed 

 on. As the ignition coils were not original, but had come from a 

 model-T Ford, they were left off the restoration. The wrapped-tread 

 tires of about 1916 have been equipped with new butyl-rubber inner 

 tubes. 



The car was acquired from the H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co., 

 of Syracuse, N. Y., in 1937, when the business was liquidated. 



