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Show NEW HEAVY OIL ENGINE IS DEVELOPED FOR SHIPS NEW YORK. Aug. 28. Develop-1 ment of a new two-cycle "Internal combustion com-bustion engine, adapted for ships as well as stationary purposes, was announced an-nounced today by Charles M. Schwab. ! The engine, it is said. Is the product j of American Inventive skill and has been given a successful trial on one oi the ore carrying ships of the Bethlehem Bethle-hem steel corporation For the first time a two-cycle internal in-ternal combustion heavy oil engine has boon perfected which produces the! 'same horsepower as a four-cycle cn-1 cn-1 gine, practically twice Its size and is .it the same time ndapied to large ships, while saving two-thirds in fuel i cost alone, as compared with steam driven oil fired vessels "Neither of these developments is ! a new idea. For years Europeans have successfully operated largo ships with Diesel engines The achievement is the adaption of the two-cycle engine en-gine to American operation and In the perfection for practical tise in cargo I vessels of any size." |