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192 chinery consists of one high pressure and two low pressure turbines on the Parsons' system, each driving its own line of shafting and propeller. The boilers, eight in number, are of the Scotch type, and worked under How- den's forced draught. The vessel is now returning to Antwerp, and will be shortly placed upon the line, to be worked in conjunction with the turbine steamer Princesse Elizabeth, already so well known on this service, and the Pieter de Coninck, the second of the new steamers, which will soon undergo her trials. NEW TYPE OF CRUDE OIL ENGINE. We have been, favored by the Grif- fin Engineering Co., Ltd., of Kingston Iron Works, Bath, Eng., with the accompanying photographs showing COMPRESSOR View STARTING ENGINE AND oF. Four-CyLinDER Ort ENGINE. the principal features of a crude oil engine of an entirely new type, re- cently constructed and supplied to the order of the Great Indian Penin- sular Railway Co., and which is coupled direct to. a high-speed air- compressor supplied by the Tilghman Sand Blast Co., of Manchester.' Mr. Grifin, the head of the engineering company bearing his name, was re- sponsible for much pioneering work in the adaptation of the internal- combustion engine for use with crude oil as the working fuel. He was one of the first to appreciate the ad- vantages of an addition of water to the charge, for the purposes of mod- erating the enormous pressures which * The Marine REVIEW are liable to be developed when crude oil is adopted as the working agent. In this new erfigine, however, this ad- dition of water to the charge is dis- pensed with, the shock on ignition of the charge being kept down by suita- May, 1910 as salt water cannot be used with safety. In any case the addition of water complicates to some extent the arrangements necessary for preparing the charge. As will be seen, the engine is of TULA e cavake eho) New Type or Four-CytinperR Or ENGINE--BACK VIEW. ly timing the ignition. Where water is added to the charge, the amount required is commonly at least two- thirds of the oil supply. This water is, moreover, not readily available in all cases.' In: marine work, for in- stance, it must be carried on board, the four-cylinder enclosed type, and it is rated at 70 brake horsepower. The oil fuel used is what is known as "refuse distillate,' having a specific Gravity of 0.9, and a flash . point: of 120 degrees Fahr. This oil is cheap and abundant, being obtainable in TYPE oF New Four-CyLinper Oi, ENcGINE--Front VIEW.