The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-30
INDUSTRIAL PLANT
FOR BIRMINGHAM
THE INTERNATIONAL POWER CO.
OWNS VALUABLE PATENTS.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC OFFICIAL
PRAISES NEW ENGINE.

The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
of recent date publishes the following
from its special correspondent at New
York:
The Wall Street Journal says:
General Manager Kruttschnitt of the
Southern Pacific is enthusiastic over the
possibilities In railroad economies of the
new locomotive utilizing a combination
of the Hoadley- knight patents for inter
nal-combustion oil-burning engines.
THE Southern Pacific has contracted
with the International Power company
for three of the new engines in case the
one now building proves satisfactory.
1.-THE power mechanism is now ready,
and as soon as the locomotive and trans
mission machinery are finished practical
tests will be made of the completed ma
chine. Stationary engines of the Diesel
type have been In use for some time at
the Southern Pacific shops at Ogden and
Tucson, as well as In many manufacture
ing plants. 1t was due to Edward II.
Harrimans belief in the economy in
power of the new locomotive that led to
THE new engine will be particularly
adapted to the high grades and long
| stretches of desert of the Southern Pa
cific, where the only water procurable
| Is SO full of alkali as to make the expense
of keeping the boilers in repair very
| heavy. The recent discoveries of oil in
Canada make the new locomotive of pros
pective application to the Canadian trans
continental lines.
Mr.. Hoadley is confident that the Hoad-
ley-Knight patents will eventually revolu-
tionize propulsion on land and water
He has recently patented an Improvement
to the engine by which each full stroke
| is a power stroke instead of every other
J one, as Is the case with other explosive
| engines. This will also be applicable to
automobiles.
International Power owns the manufac-
turing rights of the Diesel engine In both
United States and Canada and full rights
to the Hoadley knight patents. Plans are
being made for large plant In Birming-
ham, Ala, for the manufacture of these
engines.
learn that the American and British
Manufacturing company of Providence,
controlled by the International Power
company, Is preparing to ship this week
from its works.
| Three 100-horse-power triple engines.
| Six 900-horse- power triple engines
Four 120-horse- power triple engines
One 150-horse- power triple engine-all of
the Diesel patent.
These engines are being shipped to DIFF
ferent parts of the country, and the re-
suits are confirming the statement made
| by Mr.. Cramp, vice president of the
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or so ago. In writing about the Diesel
engine, which was operating a portion
of the Cramp shipyard, said that 1t was
showing an economy of so per cent over
the highest type of steam engine
The International Power company has
also closed contract with the Gorham
Manufacturing company of Providence.
the largest silverware manufacturer, and
owning what is said to be the model fac
tory of New England. for an s0o-horse-
power Diesel engine plant
Bearing on the remarkable development
of the International Power company's
| operations in building Diesel engines and
the Hoadley- Knight engines, and the ar
rangements looking to the construction
of a very large plant In Birmingham to
enable this company to meet the growth
of its business is the announcement OF
| Atwood, Violet & Co, bankers and
/ In which they say:
| Mr.. Joseph II. Hoadley, who, Il Is said
| by his close friends. has cleaned up $5,-
000. 900 out of his transactions In the stocks
| of the southern coal and iron companies
will appropriate 81 100000 to the equipment
of the Manhattan Transit company with
motor omnibuses like those now In use
for passenger transportation on the streets
| of London. but with the motive power
produced within the vehicle by the new
| Hoadley-Knight internal-combustlon en-
| CINE operating small dynamo
With facts such as these coming to
light very rapidly, the country is at last
waking up to the strength of the Inter-
national Powers position. as well as that
OF the Manhattan Transit company. two
companies which give promise of ranking
among the phenomenal successes of these
| days Of great things. T. p. G.
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