[SEL] Oil Well Supply Engine

[Kangas, James G.]

Now that you mention it I do remember reading about those conversions,but I some how thought this was an early development in the history of internal combustion engines and was not that common.
  Jim K.

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From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com on behalf of Doug Tallman
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No Jim, a halfbreed started out as a steam engine used to drill a well
and was converted to internal combustion to run off natural gas from the
well. Doug T

Kangas, James G. wrote:
> If an engine uses a single part  made by another company does that make it a half-breed?
>   Jim K.
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> I was at a show Sunday - Prairie Land, Jacksonville, IL - and among the displays was an OWS half-breed.  I asked the owner if the cylinder was a Bessemer, as that was what it looked like, but bore no marks.  He replied that it was not, it was a licensed copy, as Bessemer was overwhelmed with orders for some time.  He said the maker was South Penn Oil Company.
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> I found this in research:  "Bessemer's chief customer, the South Penn Oil Company,
> wanted so many that they paid royalties to manufacture additional
> half breeds in their own shop at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. During
> the first three years of manufacture, 10,000 pumping units were
> converted in Pennsylvania and West Virginia."
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> I bet there were probably dozens of manufacturers of conversion cylinders.
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