"Y" engines were used to power irrigation pumps on the Rio Grande river near Brownsville, Texas and in the rice fields of Arkansas and California.
They powered rice threshers, cotton gins and mills, peanut oil crushers, ore crushers and separaters and air compressors for silver, copper and gold mines of the West.
They generated electricity for utilities and power for grain elevators.
During WW1, a large order of 60 30 H.P. "C-O" marine engines were installed in British decoy fishing ships to lure German submarines within range of their 6" naval guns.
The iron-shelled, babbitt, oil grooved bearings for the "C-O" engine were developed in the laboratory at the Sheffield Plant at Three Rivers, Michigan. By 1920 they were in full production.
Many 100 H.P. "C-O" marine engines were used in the Philippine Islands to power ferry boats.
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