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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1758
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2008 - 08:50 am: | 
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Corliss Marine Engine 1916, This was last year of manufacture by Corliss, they were taken in by The Standard Gas Engine Co.of California !
Is that some intake manifold ? Anyone familiar with the Wheel Reverse ?
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doug_charles
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Username: doug_charles
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 12:43 am: |
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Thanks for the nice West Coast ad, Richard, and the wheel-and-segment reverse was applied to increase leverage on the large clutch cone and brake band. I suspect one of the factors behind Standard's interest in Corliss was the reverse gear, which was superior to Standard's, being a spur-gear unit rather than a bevel-geared one (I think!). I believe there's a "heritage craft" under NPS auspices in San Franciso Bay with a large Corliss running. The twin-carb setup IS interesting. A "Xerolene" ad in Pacific Motorboat 1915 notes several vessels as running "Standard-Corliss" engines--the horsepower figures given correspond to the normal Standard list. |
richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1761
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 02:54 pm: |
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Doug - As you explain the wheel reverse, it does seem to be a very positive method of putting all that engine power through a gear without slippage.
Seems Standard Gas Engine Co. was very busy in 1915-16 with diesel power - here is a 1916 article as to Southwark-Harris the subsidiary of Baldwin Locomotive that mfgd the Harris Diesel engs under the American patent.
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doug_charles
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Username: doug_charles
Post Number: 2
Registered: 07-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 - 10:35 pm: |
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The Southwark-Harris engine was pictured in Standard ads of 1916--a real monster with crossheads and open base, promising a smoke-house environment in the engineroom. I've heard of one vessel actually fitted with one. Wheel-actuated reverse gears were fitted to Atlas gas engines, among others, and many diesels, including the 40 hp/cyl series Washingtons. |
richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1762
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, August 04, 2008 - 11:40 am: |
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This a 1922 Atlas ad this engine looks to have almost the same wheel reverse gear as the earlier 1916 Corliss in above post !
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douglas
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Username: douglas
Post Number: 15
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 - 11:28 pm: |
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The "heritage craft" I mentioned was the Suisun, and I've learned the boat burned in 1987. Where the engine or its remains are I haven't discovered. |
