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Originally Posted by Engine Serang
And there are still people who think that during WW2 the Germans wanted to steal Doxford and B&W opposed piston blueprints.
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Without the politics of British Shipbuilders the "J" type could have been a bloody good engine for quite a few years but would inevitably have eventually succumbed in today's environment because of the inability to vary the exhaust timing.
The 58JS failed because BS convinced themselves, and some unfortunate owners, that it was as a slow speed Seahorse when it fact it was a short stroke "J". What part of "S" didn't they understand?
If they had sold it as an unidirectional engine with an integral PTO things could have been so different because in the late '70s a lot of us were suffering the traumas of operating engines designed to burn MDO being forced to use HFO
