Bill;
Those Allisons that were bought for irrigation pump motors were brand new in
their original MIL packing canisters. They would have survived being stored
in a jungle.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: ardunbill@webtv.net [mailto:ardunbill@webtv.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:29 AM
To: Albaugh, Neil; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Allison V-1710 For Speed Trials?
Neil, very interesting; so probably a lot of them were scrapped and
recycled into maybe something else we are using today. I recently heard
Al Leist closed up his San Jose speedshop and scrapped 62,000 lbs. of
old blocks and heads accumulated in his 35 years. Presumably usable but
nobody but an iron foundry wanted to buy them so that's where they went.
If the farmers in AZ bought Allisons for their water pumps for $50 or
$100 they got a great buy. But at least they did something useful like
grow crops with them, if the engines sat in their crates for 50 years in
storage somewhere they might rot to the point of being useless anyway.
Rust never sleeps. But on the other hand, maybe they were rust-proofed
by Allison so they could survive almost infinite storage, like the
contents of King Tut's tomb! Bill
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