CHAP. VIII. 



OIL ENGINES. 



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suggested by prolonged experience in the supply of this class of machinery. 

 Many other firms than those named manufacture excellent steam engines 

 of the several forms, and those selected for illustration are taken as 

 typical of some of the best of their classes. 



Fig. 323. Hindley's Vertical Steam Engine and Boiler. 



We have already noticed oil motors, and it remains to refer briefly 

 to fixed oil engines, which are now in extensive use for various purposes 

 on farms. There are many excellent engines of this class in the market, 

 and the one shown in fig. 326 is selected because it is specially designed 

 for farm use, the makers having won the first prize in trials carried out 



