Word: dieselization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triple-acting Diesel engine with two pistons operating in the same cylinder won Patent No. 2,228,472, assigned to Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. Claims: delivery, per pound of engine weight, of more than double the power of previous similar Diesels; cheap construction and operation. Two opposed pistons move synchronously together and apart in the cylinder. When closest together, they form between their inner heads a combustion chamber. Fuel is injected here and ignited by heat of compression (as in all Diesels), driving the pistons apart. Now two other combustion chambers are formed between the pistons' outer heads...
Into full production last week went one of the first new plants built especially for defense. It is long, low, windowless. air-conditioned, fireproof and allegedly bombproof, cost $1,000,000. Its site: Harvey, Ill. Its builder: the 60-year-old Buda (pronounced bewda) Co., a Diesel-building pioneer. Its product: a Diesel for U. S. Army tanks. The reason this plant reached full production last week was that an oil wildcatter was willing to take a chance...
...handed Texan who struck it rich in his early 205, built a sowell oil business and a drillers' equipment company in Dallas. In 1929, a bright young Austrian named F. A. Thaheld (now Guiberson's chief design engineer) presented him with a new design for a Diesel airplane engine. Guiberson sank $1,500,000 in it, has been trying to sell it for airplane use ever since. To his bankers, willing to back him in oil, lis engine was just a crackpot scheme.' Once, when he borrowed $2,500,000 for his oil business, they made...
...enough for me. All the money I ever made, I made gambling. In the oil business, nobody ever saw his profit in the bank when he started to drill. I'll take a chance on this one and see if I can get the Army to put my Diesel into ipo or so tanks. I don't care' how the tax bill ends up because it's a cinch that in six months the Army will want more than 100 tank engines, and I will be in production, with a head start...
...Guiberson had the head start he wanted. Tank talk was turning to Diesels. The British Army, having gone into production on a 350-h.p. gasoline engine, was already designing a Diesel to replace it. Encouraged by such talk, S. A. Guiberson had Inventor Thaheld at work in Dallas on a bigger Diesel for heavy tanks...