New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1929, Page 13

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1920. 7he ZERO nour har struck for /(flock/flg Motors..« TYD ZERO KNOCK RAT You can thank the amazing success of Hi-test TYDOL fm' Tide Water’s latest gasoline achievement—the new TYDOL ETHYL with a zero knock rating. Announced last November, as a high-test, anti-knock, super- power gasoline at no extra cost, Hi-fest TYDOL literally took motordom by storm. New TYDOL pumps sprang up like mushrooms. Increzsed TYDOL demand taxed to the utmost capacity Tide Water's huge refinery facilities. Demonstrating that car owners are quick to recognize a definite improvement in motor fuels. Now Tide Water engincers have succeeded in combining the proven qualities of Hi-test TYDOL with ETHYL, the undisputed leader of anti-knock compounds . . . resulting in another and still greater super-fuel. A deluxe companion fuel to Hi-fest TYDOL, with a certified knock rating of sero. Wky pay a 3 cent premium for molor fucls {hat show a kmock rating of 5, 8 and 9. (See table at right.) The Midgley (Bouncing Pin) Indicator, the official gauge for measuring anti- knock quaiity, shows that the new TYDOL ETHYL has an unvarying and a positive knock rating of zero. Meaning K. O. and good-bye to all knocks in knocking motors. Y O UR TYDOL DEALE « Ve wame Ui-rest TYDOL ... Hi-test TYDOL will continue to R Bring on your high-speed, high-compression and carbonized motors. Bring on your long, hot stretches of roadway, broiling under the summer swn. Bring on the hills, the mud, the sand. The new TYDOL ETHYL will breeze you through with the powerful thrust of a flying comet . . . without a knock in a whole day’s journey. TYDOL ETHYL is a fuel for the car owner who demands the very best . . . and will take no substitutes. And why should he? For this zero knock rating gasoline costs only 3¢ a gallon more than ordinary gasolines; and often less than the cost of premium gasoline with high knock ratings. Make a 10 gallon test The next time you need gasoline drive up to a TYDOL ETHYL pump and try out ten gallons of this modern fuel. It will only cost you 30c more than 10 gallons of ordinary gas. Nn\ more ... perhaps less ... mium gasolines. But in any event, 30c is a small amount to gamble to prove to vourself just what a zero knock rating gasoline will do in your own car. Tide Water Oil Sales Corporation, 3390 Main St., Hartfovd, Conn. than you have been paying for other pre- N OWwW OFFERS YOU — be the leader of non-premium gasolines — unchanged in quality or price, THYL . ..o de lave, super fuel with a zero knock rating, at only 3¢ more a gallon. Motor Qil « + « Made 190% irom Pennsylvania and other paraffine base crudes . . . the choice of famous aviators, [Ruckliffe 0l Co. LOCAL DEALERS In Tydol GASOLINE and Ve dol MOTOR OIL Three Stations: KNOCK RATING OF § PROMINENT PREMIUM GASOLINES These 3 cent premium gasolines were tested on the Midgely (Bouncing Pin) Indicator according to an established standard scale over a period of 6 months, from November, 1928,10 May, 1929, with the following resultss MININUM MANIMUM AVFRAGE KNOCK KNOCK ANOCK RATING RATING RATING EuelfB Rt SRR ety ] 3 BT FuiellE e S FuelD . , . EUCIE Rt IGYDOLAET HYTH() S jl—Franklin Sq. Filling| Station 2—Stanley St. at East Main 85— West Main at Corhin Avenue