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OBSERVATIONSReferring to Vol. 4, No. 2 GemBy T. H. Krueger1615 San Francisco St. San Antonio, Texas 78201 Robert Helstedt's engine, on bottom of page 5, has an auxiliary-hopper attached, made of heavy sheet-steel, thus permitting more water to the cooling capacity of the engine, so one doesn't have to replenish the water supply so often during long runs; as you know the water is slowly boiling away while the engine is working. Lots of these INTERNATIONAL LA and LB engines probably were ordered equipped with this hopper extension on both the 1½ to 2½ hp., and the 3 to 5 hp. sizes, as an extra item. Likely, many of these engines, in captivity now, may have had these extension-hoppers, but they were found rusted thru, and were then removed and discarded, bringing the engine back to a standard-hoppered unit. It appears Helstedt's engine is a 1½ to 2½ hp. size. This size was sometimes use... 816 of 5977 characters shown.
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