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...into Kansas City, No. 4113, pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make the record, David L. Forsythe, Frisco's equipment foreman, rode every mile. Every...
Axelson Engine. Axelson Machine Co. of Los Angeles were justly vexed at the report that a broken valve had ended an endurance flight at Minneapolis (TIME, July 8). That plane was driven by a seven-cylinder radial Axelson motor (developed last year), which carried the Axelson pride?a device equalizing valve lifts and minimizing the strains which break valves. What investigation showed actually stopped the flight was a nut which broke because a mechanic had not properly tightened a companion...
Their accomplishment, reached and tested episodically last year, is a nine-cylinder, radial, air-cooled motor. It lacks, of course, the sparkplugs, wires, magnetos, etc., essential in spark-ignited gasoline engines. A pipe line distributes oil under pressure to each of the cylinders. The present machine delivers 200 h.p., and is slightly less in diameter than gasoline radials of like power. It weighs nearly 3 Ib. per h.p., against the average 2 Ib. per h. p. of gasoline types. But it travels farther and more cheaply on a gallon of its fuel. For example, last week's 7-hour...
...Similar is the case of radial air-cooled gasoline motors, and in-line water-cooled gasoline motors. Patents, however, still endure on Knight sleeve-valve motors. Hence in the U. S. only Willys-Knight and Steams-Knight as yet may use that type in passenger cars. Charles Y. Knight, sleeve-valve inventor, still lives, richly and quietly, in California (TIME, Sept...
...Continental Motors, who, with Lycoming, make almost all engines for motor car companies that do not make their own, last week announced its first aircraft motor, a seven-cylinder air-cooled radial. Lycoming also makes an aircraft motor...