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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Jacksonville ShowBIGGER AND BETTERBy Jim Fiedler,608 East Broadway, P.O. Box 291, Fairfield, Iowa 52556. Last September I attended the Jacksonville, Illinois Steam and Gas Engine Show. I had not attended this show for the past four or five years and found it to be bigger and better than ever. Two new buildings have been added and now the 150 HP Primm is inside and has another old Primm to keep it company, however it is much smaller but older. The 1924 Primm has a weight of about 22 tons, has a bore and stroke of 22 x 24 inches. The 150 HP is said to be the only one of its kind still with us today; all the others have made their way to the scrap yard. Near the two Primms is a 50 HP F-M that is restored and running. This one is started a few times a day during the show and runs like a top. In another corner of the building is a Corliss and generator that with some TLC w... 788 of 4543 characters shown.
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