. Journal . \\ /; WATERWORKS CONSTRUCTIONS IN AMERICA av ERNEST R. MATTHEWS. Plate. l«i m 1 P mip ii m ?: f^ -K, ^^^i::rxia:=:5: rx^ v% ex ili===44l#^ 115 June Srd, 1907. JOSEPH WILLIAM WILSON, Vice-President,IN THE Chair. WORKING EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE GAS ENGINES.* By Cecil A. St. George Moorr, P>. Introduction. The production of power by the use of large gas engines hasdeveloped at a remarkable rate during the last few years, andmuch has been written on the subject. Most of the literatureis, however, written from the manufacturers point of view, andgenerally by the manufacturers


. Journal . \\ /; WATERWORKS CONSTRUCTIONS IN AMERICA av ERNEST R. MATTHEWS. Plate. l«i m 1 P mip ii m ?: f^ -K, ^^^i::rxia:=:5: rx^ v% ex ili===44l#^ 115 June Srd, 1907. JOSEPH WILLIAM WILSON, Vice-President,IN THE Chair. WORKING EXPERIENCES WITH LARGE GAS ENGINES.* By Cecil A. St. George Moorr, P>. Introduction. The production of power by the use of large gas engines hasdeveloped at a remarkable rate during the last few years, andmuch has been written on the subject. Most of the literatureis, however, written from the manufacturers point of view, andgenerally by the manufacturers themselves, and it deals almostexclusively with points of design. We have very little in-formation about the actual behaviour of these engines in every-day working, the only paper treating this side of the subjectwhich the author has seen being one which appeared in Stahlund Eisen about eighteen months ago, and whicli has neverbeen published in English. The present paper has been written to show some of thedefects which have presented themselves in actual work, and bywhat me


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