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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Q NW1Switchers
From: Gordon Smith <kc2bw@w...>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 19:26:03 -0500
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"M. Thayer" wrote:

> Winton was *not* an outside supplier. IIRC, it was acquired in 1930. Their
> straight 8 marine diesel was then evolved (under the famed Charles
> Kettering - "All we did was to build the diesel the way it *wanted* to
> work" -) to the 191 distillate unit, thence to the 201A. The 567 was an
> in-house improvement by the Kettering team.
> 
> Marshall the Pedantic Historian
> 
>

Winton was *not* purchased by EMC. They *were* both purchased by
General Motors in 1930.
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