Standard Unit Navigation Co. of St. Louis has installed new system of river transportation on Cumberland river in Tennessee; electrically propelled towboats, with caterpillar drive are used to move barge trains up and down river hauling freight; Sunco-A4 is 90 ft. long and equipped with two Winton 6-cylinder, solid-injection Diesel engines; directly connected to each engine are two generators and exciter; two propulsion engines develop total of 160 hp. at 600 r.p. m., power being transmitted to wheel drive shafts by means of drive chains. (See also Mar. Eng. and Shipg. Age vol. 34, no. 10, Oct. 1929 pp. 563-564 and 568, 4 figs; and Log, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 1929, p. 13, 3 figs)


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    Titel :

    River towboat has tractor drive


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Pac. Mar. Rev.


    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1929


    Format / Umfang :

    2 pages


    Anmerkungen:

    3 Figs.


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    River towboat has tractor drive

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1929


    River towboat has tractor drive

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1929



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