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MAY REVISE RULES
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MAY REVISE RULES
The Indianapolis Star
27 September 1908
GET FOREIGN SUGGESTIONS
NEW PLAN FOR INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOBILE CONTESTS WOULD LIMIT CYLINDER BORE TO 130 MM—POWER SUFFICIENT FOR TOURING.
The Automobile Club of America has received a communication from the Marquis A. Frerrero Ventimiglia, president of the Automobile Club of Italy, embodying suggestions for a revision of the international rules at the coming meeting of the International Association of Recognized Automobile Clubs, which will meet in Paris on Oct. 11.
The new suggestion limits the cylinder bore to 130 millimeters. The arguments in favor of this limitation being that, although there exists types on the market larger than 130-millimeters bore, it would be better to limit the maximum to this measurement, because there is an opportunity to leave a sufficiently strong difference between the 155-millimeter bore of cylinder of racing cars and of the 130-millimeter bore proposed.
It is also suggested that owing to continual improvements the power obtained from a 130-millimeter bore motor is already sufficiently great for touring purposes.
These suggestions have been forwarded to each American manufacturer and manufacturer's association with a request that their views be forwarded to the club's technical committee in order that the club's representatives may lay the American manufacturers' views before the international association.
It will mark a new era in America's international affairs when the American manufacturer has a voice in the International Association of Recognized Automobile Clubs, and it is hoped that replies from manufacturers stating their views will be forthcoming immediately so that the consensus of opinion can be fathomed by the technical committee and submitted to the clubs' delegates before they sail for Europe.
