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Ingersoll-Rand 8PLVG, One of Only Six Made, at Risk of Being Destroyed

By Mac and Betty Sine

The engine shown below spent its working life driving a water pump in one of the Lower Neches Valley Authority (LNVA) pumping stations in east Texas. These pumping stations feed water into a canal system to provide irrigation for farms and to provide salinity control in recreational lakes.

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The Ingersoll-Rand Model 8PLVG in its current intallment in Beaumont, Texas. This is one of only six of these huge V-8 engines made.

This engine is being retired, and the LNVA is willing to donate it to an interested engine organization rather than scrapping it. The PLVG is a power engine version of the model LVG integral engine-compressor. This unit, serial number 8AZ100, was the first of only six 8PLVG engines manufactured. It was shipped from Painted Post, N.Y., on April 20, 1939. The LVG/P was the first ...

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