Marine Engineer . &;HJ ^. a aa 9oft a o ? to a a s(• a & a June, 1923. THE MARINE ENGINEER AND NAVAL ARCHITECT. 227 scavenging air to the cylinders is automatically type bilge and circulating-water pumps are fittedto the engine—one on each side—driven from an eccentricon the crankshaft. One of these pumjjs may be seen in thephotograph to the right of the handwheel. The Kromhout engine is not a hot bulb engine, but isfitted with a special form of ignition plate at the cylinder heat up this ignition plate before starting the engine, aspecial rapid heater nozzle is fi
Marine Engineer . &;HJ ^. a aa 9oft a o ? to a a s(• a & a June, 1923. THE MARINE ENGINEER AND NAVAL ARCHITECT. 227 scavenging air to the cylinders is automatically type bilge and circulating-water pumps are fittedto the engine—one on each side—driven from an eccentricon the crankshaft. One of these pumjjs may be seen in thephotograph to the right of the handwheel. The Kromhout engine is not a hot bulb engine, but isfitted with a special form of ignition plate at the cylinder heat up this ignition plate before starting the engine, aspecial rapid heater nozzle is fitted as shown in the nozzle is carried on a copper air-pipe, inside which is asmaller tube supplying paraffin. The intense heat from thisblow lamp rapidly heats the ignition plate and the engine canbe started up in about five minutes from stone cold. The com-pressed air for starting the engine is connected with the forwardcylinder only, the piston of which has to be brought to the correct posit
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