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...Aeronautical Corp., another plant extension is springing up under the watering of another French grant. Wright's expansion is financed by a French order said to be $30,000,000, will nearly double its capacity of about 400* Cyclones a month. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, General Motors' new Allison plant is getting into production on its high-powered, liquid-cooled engines to go into new Army pursuit ships. By the middle of the summer the production of the three plants in military engines may well hit a total of close to 2,000 a month, end fears which Army...
Today, engines for big ships are produced by only three U. S. factories: Pratt & Whitney (at East Hartford, Conn.) and Wright (at Paterson, N. J.), which produce radial, air-cooled engines, and General Motors Corp.'s Allison Engineering Co. (Indianapolis), which is just getting into production on liquid-cooled inline motors. If there is ever a bottleneck in the production of aircraft for war it will be in the compact engine business, but last week it did not appear close. For Pratt & Whitney and Wright had finished their expansions for wartime business, were operating at no more than...
...Pratt & Whitney, Allison (liquid-cooled), Wright and Lycoming engines...
Month ago the U. S. War Department planked out $25,009,388 for a whopping rush order of airplane engines. To Allison Engineering Co., a newcomer in high-powered aeronautics, went the fattest slice: $15,080,261. Old-established Wright Aeronautical Corp. and Pratt & Whitney (already fat with Army contracts) came off second and a poor third (Wright: $8,975,317; Pratt & Whitney $953,810). Reason: Army men favored the Allison 1,200-h.p. engine (TIME, Jan. 30), whose twelve inline cylinders, snug as a whippet's ears, made it the last word in streamlined high-output power...
Last week, however, it was Pratt & Whitney's turn to smile all over its corporate face. Over its East Hartford, Conn, plant roared a Vultee A19 motored by an engine of the old radial, air-cooled type that was half again as powerful as the Allison. Weighing slightly less per horsepower than the Allison, it could fit into small pursuit planes as snugly as a cartridge in a rifle breech...