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510 Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries
Breen Motor Company
Limited, Winnepeg
To whom it may concern:
I made a test today of the Pogue Carburettor [sic] installed on a
Ford eight-cylinder coupe. The speedometer showed that this
car had already run over 9,000 miles. I drove this car 23.2 miles
on one pint of gasoline The temperature was averaging round
zero with a strong north wind blowing. I drove for 15 miles and
back on the same road, and the distance shown by the
speedometer mileage was 23.2 miles when the gasoline was
exhausted and the car stopped.
The performance of the car was 100 percent in every way. I
tested for acceleration, get-away from a standing start and at all
speeds, and it performed equal to, if not better, than any car
with a standard carburettor.
At very low speeds, under 10 miles per hour, it was smoother
in operation than a standard car. In fact, below 5 miles per hour
it pulled up a slight grade without labouring of any kind. I
stepped on accelerator when the speedometer was below 5
miles per hour and the car got away without a falter.
(signed) T.G. Breen, President [Breen Motor Co. Ltd.]
the roof, dropping down and removing the carburetors while Mr. Pogue
was away for lunch on Wednesday.
Previous Theft Attempted
A previous attempt to steal the carburetor in April of this year was unsuccessful.
At that time thieves stole a car in which the invention had been
demonstrated from a garage at the rear of the Amphitheatre. Fortunately,
the carburetor had been removed from the car some time before.
The invention was tested officially last December. In below-zero
weather, two prominent Winnipeg automobile men, W. S. Kickley and T.
G. Breen, reported 209.6 miles to the gallon.
In another test made by Mr. Pogue himself, in February, a car equipped
with this carburetor is said to have travelled from Winnipeg to Vancouver
on less than 15 gallons of gasoline.