General Electric Engine
From Richard Dickey

 

GE steam engine   GE steam engine
     
This is a General Electric steam engine and boiler originally made for installation in a car.  This work was done in the 1920’s and about 6 vehicles were made with one or two still in existence in Australia.  This power unit was taken out of a car and for years ran in a boat owned by A. M. Stanley, an engineer for GE.  A. M. Stanley also has the patent #995,384 from 1911 on this engine and valve gear.  It is basically a sliding cam shaft with several grinds to change the cutoff timing that actuates poppet valves.  The basic engine design is covered in patent #747,926 by H. S. Baldwin, 1903, also assigned to GE.  It is a very compact design and quite economical in that the geometry allows for needing only one cam with a very short valve train to the cylinder heads.  The engine runs good on air. 
     
General Electirc's Steam Engine   General Electirc's Steam Engine
     

This is the General Electric steam power plant from the 1920’s.  The boiler is liquid fuel fired from the bottom and the monotube design is one of hair-pin bends with the layers at right angles to each other. It is of square cross section.  The engine is extremely well made.  One of the clever design features is a variable throw (or stroke) two piston pump with it appearing that the smaller piston was to pump

General Electirc's Steam Engine

  

fuel and the larger diameter piston to pump water so that some modulation was arrived at automatically.  This is not a swash plate engine but a “Z” crank item and the purpose appears to be compactness.  

     
GE steam engine   GE steam engine
     
GE steam engine   GE steam engine
     
GE steam engine   GE steam engine
     
GE steam engine   GE steam engine
     
GE steam engine   GE steam engine
     
     
GE steam engine