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gas, which is again fired as it passes the firing 
point. 
Numbering the cylinders from one to seven, 
starting with No. I, and counting clockwise, 
they fire in the order of 1, 3, 5, 7, 2, 4, 6 respec¬ 
tively as they pass the firing point, so that the 
space between each firing stroke is equal and 
consequently the torque is very steady. 
The ignition is operated by a single contact 
against a high tension distributing disk revolv¬ 
ing with the engine, and a single cam lifts each 
exhaust valve in turn as it passes a fixed point. 
The exhaust valves on the heads of the cylinders 
open straight into the air. There is no so- 
called carburetor, the gas being mixed by means 
of a simple air jet and gasolene spray fixed at 
the end of the hollow crank shaft. The mixture 
passes through the crank shaft into the crank 
case, after which it is taken through automatic 
valves in the pistons and then into the cylinders. 
All rocker arms, intake and exhaust valves are 
so constructed on the counter weight principle 
that such action as centrifugal force is elimi¬ 
nated. 
The engine is made entirely of a special com¬ 
position of chrome nickel steel. All parts are 
forged and machined to i-2000th part of an inch. 
The cylinders are turned out of a solid steel 
bar, and when finished, the walls of the cylinders 
are 1.2 millimeters thick, being re-enforced by 
the radiation fins. The motor is wholly a 
French production, except that British manu¬ 
facturers were asked to make the special auto¬ 
matic machines to cut the cylinders. 
Market for Boats ini France. 
Consul James E. Dunning, of Havre, sends 
the following report on the opportunity for 
sales of American motor boats on the French 
coast to the Daily Consular and Trade Reports: 
As was recently reported by the conciliate to 
an American inquirer, the use of small motor 
boats is steadily increasing at Havre and all 
along this coast. The territory is not only 
specially adapted to the use of such craft, but 
offers superior advantages as an importing and 
selling point. In and about Havre there are 
half a dozen thriving yacht clubs and large 
numbers of dealers who would like to get in 
touch with American manufacturers of service¬ 
able motors, or even of the hulls of boats them¬ 
selves. It is a very conservative field, changing 
slowly in any trade. This is one of the reasons 
why it is still behind some other localities or 
inferior importance in the general use of marine 
motors, and it thus remains particularly open 
to the advances of alert exporters in the United 
States. The conviction of the consulate is that 
the potential trade in this line here is of large 
volume, and that no effort looking toward its 
development should be undertaken excepting 
on a liberal and determined basis. 
Two classes of motors are in demand here, 
the high-priced, highly-finished machine for 
pleasure boats of the most expensive class, and 
the ordinary machine for commercial use in 
fishing, water, delivery and other boats. Both 
grades are open to American invasion, in spite 
of local competition, which has been specially 
successful in high-grade motors.producing great 
speed. 
The sales of high-grade motors and hulls 
could only be effected by entering into direct 
competition with the famous French manufac¬ 
turers and by putting American boats directly 
into local waters, where they could be observed. 
Exporters interested in this line might read 
with profit the report made by the consulate at 
Milan a year or two ago on the opportunity 
for American motors on the large Italian lakes. 
In that country practically none of our motors 
were in use, and both boats and motors were 
looked upon with more or less disfavor until 
the advent of a high-class cabin cruiser built in 
New Jersey and home-equipped throughout. By 
making a good appearance on the Lake of 
Como throughout a whole season, at the end 
of which it made a handsome showing in the 
annual regattas held there, this boat has been 
responsible for a very marked advance in sales 
for all grades of American motors, by no means 
confined to the product of her own builders. 
Just how to accomplish a similar result at 
Havre it is difficult for the consulate to advise, 
since the obvious high cost of putting an ex¬ 
pensive boat into foreign waters and maintain¬ 
ing it through several seasons as an advertising 
proposition does not appeal to American manu¬ 
facturers, despite its absolute merits as com¬ 
pared with other forms of decidedly less valu¬ 
able publicity. Experience in several European 
countries teaches conclusively that printed ad¬ 
vertising, whether in catalogues, circulars, or 
magazines, is of no use in meeting the compe¬ 
tition of local makers who have their boats 
actually on the ground. Perhaps a reasonable 
compromise might be effected by securing a 
local agent and coming to some agreement with 
him by which he could acquire a good boat on 
specially easy terms in consideration of his 
promise to keep it in evidence under proper cir¬ 
cumstances and to enter it in the annual sum¬ 
mer regattas of this coast. 
Makers of engines only or builders who did 
not care to go to this extent in getting their 
boats directly into the field of competition, 
might do well to secure an agent in Havre, and 
in Paris as well, who would keep sample motors 
on exhibition in his stores. Such exhibits, if 
carefully conducted, would have a good attrac¬ 
ting power, particularly if supplemented by an 
intelligent follow-up campaign among individual 
owners of boats or those known to be inter¬ 
ested in the yacht clubs. Such a follow up 
would have to be done by a local agent of the 
best class, equipped with literature printed in 
the French language. Very much would de¬ 
pend on his personality and his personal ac¬ 
quaintance and position. 
In effecting such a connection the best pro¬ 
cedure would dictate the visit of some re¬ 
sponsible representative of the American manu¬ 
facturer, who could study the field and the agent 
at the same time. Nothing can be done in this 
direction at Havre with catalogues or other 
printed matter of any kind whatsoever. 
The other line of motors for which there is a 
large market at Havre and the surrounding 
territory is the commercial machine, designed 
to drive ordinary boats in the harbors and 
navigable waterways, and making use of heavy 
oils if possible. This use extends to the fishing 
trade, towing in canals, watering in the port 
and harbor, and the minor coasting trade. 
Thousands of small fishing boats are in use 
here, and since the low-price motor is already 
beginning to make its appearance among them, 
the inference is that the business ft opening up. 
The consulate does not need to call the at¬ 
tention of the home trade to the method in 
which this kind of sales is developed. A study 
of any seaport town, like Portland, Me., for 
example, will show how the use of the motor on 
fishing boats and other small craft of that class 
has grown until the majority of such hulls are 
equipped with engines. Havre, still backward 
in the adoption of such machines, and where the 
fisherman has less ready money with which to 
make a purchase, offers a similar field in which 
the active exporter might find rich returns. 
Vice-Consul Beecher, of this post, who has 
made a good many careful observations upon 
the gradual opening of this business on the 
French coast, reports that a well-known firm of 
English manufacturers is about to put on the 
Havre market a motor which, he says, “can 
easily be installed upon boats of almost every 
description for fishing, coasting, or inland 
waterways. The motor will be run with heavy 
oil, much cheaper than naphtha or petrol, and 
in fishing boats, of which there are thousands 
in these waters, will enable them to increase or 
possibly double their catch by arriving without 
delay on the fishing grounds and getting rapid¬ 
ly back to port again, making two trips where 
they now make one.” 
This the economical basis for a large business 
in commercial motors seems to be already es¬ 
tablished here, and only needs the convincing 
arguments of the clever American salesman to 
prove that the increased cost of operation will 
be more than paid for in fish brought to market. 
Such proof must be given, however, and de- * 
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