carburettor

• “With each stroke of his crankshaft, my carburettor purred.”

  Fictionaut: Regret

• “You poured kerosene inside your carburettor instead of water”

  Archive 2008-05-01

• “Because the car lacked a fuel pump, the fuel tank was placed high up in the engine compartment so that fuel could be fed to the carburettor by gravity; a trade-off of this design is an increased fire risk in front-end accidents.”

  Car beauty is in the eye of the beholder

• “He also claimed to have invented the spark plug, monoblock engine and the carburettor.”

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• “A fuel injected engine is a lot more efficient – and pollutes much less – than one with a carburettor.”

  August « 2009 « Stephen Rees’s blog

• “The prototype includes a Honda GK 100 77cc, 2hp air-cooled engine, asymmetric CVT transmission system, tubular A1 6063 T6 chassis, 16 Inch recumbent wheels, twin-tie road steering system, variable jet carburettor and simple caliper cycle brakes.”

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• “Butler was well known in automobile history for his advanced thinking - he invented the float feed, variable choke and spray carburettor and a time when others were using surface vaporisation Butler's Patent Nos 15589/87, and 9203/89.”

  Archive 2008-10-01

• “Husband: You don't even know what a carburettor is.”

  Knock, Knock

• “The carburettor responds well to being shouted at.”

  dustbury.com » I can’t keep up

• “It is this deep river of quick minded citizens, that has seen them walk away with, eleven science Nobel awards, not to mention a surfeit of inventions, from the carburettor, helicopter, television, binary code, jet propulsion and even the contact lens, to name a few.”

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