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A 6-71 Gray Marine training engine aboard the Training Ship Golden Bear. The 6-71 Gray Marine Diesel Engine is a marinized version of the General Motors Detroit Diesel 6-71 engine produced by the Gray Marine Motor Company. It was used in landing craft during World War II and is used today in private boats and training facilities.
The GM Diesel/Detroit Diesel model 6051 Quad power pack consists of four inline 2-stroke diesel 6-71 engines mounted to one gearbox, usually with one shaft coming out of the power unit. The power units were fitted on landing craft and ships during World War II , ships including LCI(L) , [ 1 ] Prab (741) and Nahka (751) were fitted with two of ...
The inline six-cylinder 71 series engine was introduced as the initial flagship product of the Detroit Diesel Engine Division of General Motors in 1938.. This engine was in high demand during WWII, necessitating a dramatic increase in output: about 57,000 6-71s were used on American landing craft, including 19,000 on LCVPs, about 8,000 on LCM Mk 3, and about 9,000 in quads on LCIs; and 39,000 ...
Gray Marine engine preserved at Arromanches-les-Bains, Normandy Esmeralda II, 1947, first power boat through the Grand Canyon. Gray Marine Motor Company was a U.S. manufacturer of marine engines between 1910 and 1967. These ranged from one to six cylinders in both gas and later diesel layouts, which were used in pleasure boats, work boats, and ...
Detroit Diesel Series 50; Detroit Diesel Series 53; Detroit Diesel Series 60; Detroit Diesel Series 71; Gray Marine 6-71 Diesel Engine; Detroit Diesel Series 92; Detroit Diesel 110; Detroit Diesel Series 149; Detroit diesel 6051 quad-71
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Burmeister & Wain (part of MAN Diesel since 1980), double-acting diesels for marine propulsion from 1930 onwards, also made by shipbuilders under licence; Detroit Diesel, uniflow [27] engines for on- and off-road trucks, on-road buses and stationary applications; Doxford, opposed piston slow speed marine diesel engines.
GMDD developed a widespread international marketing, service, and parts distribution infrastructure for GM diesel engines in the postwar years. In 1962 GM's Electro-Motive Division (EMD), which had its own marketing and service infrastructure from its years in the locomotive business, took over the production and marketing of large diesel ...