I assume you already know that the Detroit Diesel two-stroke-cycle supercharged engine is based on the first know successful diesel ever built. This was done 15 years before Rudolph Diesel invented his design. Makes you wonder why we call it "diesel" fuel. It should be "Clark" fuel. I also why the four-stroke-cycle is claimed to be based on the Otto Cycle when Mr. Otto did not invent that either. He used a design created by a Frenchman years earlier.
53 came out in 1957. You can find patent information with more details on-line, from the US Patent office. Also many primary documents related to it in the Library of Congress.
I have engine-spec books for most years, but not all.
My specs books show the first year for each GM engine. 71 (2,3,4, and 6) came out in 1938. 6-110 came out in 1950.
1942 for General Motors shows a 1-71, 3-71, 4-71, and 6-71.
1950 for General Motors only shows the 71 series, 2-71,3-71, 4-71, and 6-71.
1952 for General Motors only shows the 71 and 110 series. 2-71,3-71, 4-71, and 6-71 and the 6-110.
History: 1878 Dugald Clark demonstrated, successfully, his two-stroke-cycle diesel engine. It was patented in 1881. Used a compressor to created forced-induction (a supercharger).
1893 At Augsburg, on August 10, 1893, Rudolf Diesel's prime model, a single 10-foot iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time with 26% efficiency, remarkably more than double the efficiency of the steam engines and in 1894, he filed for a patent for his new invention
1930 Winton Engine Company became the Winton Engine Corporation, a subsidiary of General Motors on June 20, 1930. It produced the first practical two-stroke-cycle diesel engines in the 400 to 1,200 hp (300 to 900 kW) range, which powered early Electro-Motive GM locomotives and US Navy submarines . That part of Winton devoted to the manufacturing of diesel became part of Electro-Motive in 1935 became part of the General Motors —later a division of.
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