[SEL] Oil Well Supply Engine

Bruce Younger sluggo54 at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 30 21:28:41 PDT 2009


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.

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."

I bet there were probably dozens of manufacturers of conversion cylinders.

Bruce Younger   

05G HHC 313 RR Bn 3/67-4/68   

Madison, SD  

sluggo54 at hotmail.com   



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