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RichardDurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1503
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 03:50 pm: | 
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Palmer Stratified Fuel Oil Motor
This was a flyer in a 1936 catalog
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Richard A. Day Jr.
Senior Member
Username: richardday
Post Number: 508
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 08:36 pm: |
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Richard, I had to laugh when the Japanese brought out a stratified charge engine back in the 60s I think it was they were hailed for the new revolutionary developement in engine technology.
I have a ca 1935 photgraph of Ray Bolling in the test house adjusting one of these Palmer engines. Ray told me they use the basic Ford Model B engine and took advantage of the vertical drive shaft for the distributor to operate the rotory valve for the fuel/air intake and put the distributor on top of the intake column. He said the engines ran very well but the valves then available simply could not handle the high temperature burning. He said they took one test run about 40 miles up Long Island sound towards Block Island. The engine coked up so bad they had to pull the head and clean out the accumalated carbon to get home. He said they put a lot of effort into the project hoping to come up with a cheap competitor to the full diesel but it was a total failure. An idea before its time I guess. AS a result of this failure they then went on to develope their version of the Russell Newbery (UK) diesel. They got it on the production line about 1940 in both a 4 and 6 cylinder versions. WWII killed it and they never restarted production after WWII because so many 671 surplus diesels were being sold for bargain prices. The UK company is still in business and their pre WWII designed diesels are very popular as the most efficient diesl in use on the canal boats of the UK. |
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