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1911 Article-Rumely, M. Co.-Factory View |
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Threshermen's Review, V20, Jan 1911, pg. 44 |
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11/19/2018 8:05:15 PM |
A Complete Plant.
The picture on this page shows one of the M. Rumely Company's Oil Pull factory buildings. It is 100 ft. wide and 612 ft. long, with a second story gallery running around the entire building. The central floor is served by two traveling cranes, one for lighter parts and the other strong enough to pick up an entire Oil Pull tractor and load it on the car or carry it about the shop.
These shops are running night and day at the present time, with a force of about 700 men, to take care of spring plowing engine business. In addition to the markets of the United States and Canada, heavy export orders have been booked for the Argentine, Russia and other foreign countries.
A unique feature of the Oil Pull plant is the test shed; here each new engine is belted to a generator and kept at work from fifteen to twenty hours. Eight engines work side by side in this test shed and supply the shop with the five hundred horse power needed to operate its machinery. Each engine requires about 750 horse power hours to build, and by this method, each engine, before leaving the shop, is made to generate power enough from kerosene to build one other engine.
The factory lay-out is the most modern in the country. The shop. was equipped by, and is now in charge of Mr. George L. Crook, who has specialized on gas engine work during the last fifteen years. In addition to important positions with the two largest gas engine companies of the country, he equipped the famous E-M-F automobile plant at Detroit, for its record-breaking production of cars. |
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1911 Article-Rumely, M. Co.-Factory View
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