Not to say that this kid is too bright.... but you need not expect too many people/kids today to have any idea about old Detroits. You might stop and consider that Series 60 with DDEC came out something like 20-25 years ago and that combined with the B series Cummins pretty well nailed the coffin shut on those old screamers because the 60 series replaced the 71/92 series highway engines and the B series abolished the 53 series industrial applications. I took heavy equipment repair in high school in the mid-90's and the only reason I know anything about the old Detroits is because my teacher was a Detroit man. Save that I'd know absolutely nothing about them... Even at that time we spent a lot more time on Cummins, Cat and the various Bosch/CAV/Standyne fuel systems rather than Detroit. For all their infamy, I've only ever seen probably a dozen of the damn old things, and that's about enough in my books... They were the most efficient contraption ever devised for converting diesel fuel into noise and smoke.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Field Marshall Tractor - by Anthony West. Any restorer who has some knowledge of turn of the century farm machinery, will recognize the name Lanz Bulldog!! This machine was to say the least unusual in its appearance. The huge flywheel and coffee percolator shaped exhaust. Along with square body lines and cylinder head protruding forward of the front axle. Would become the visual differentiation that people would quote to separate the Lanz from other period machines. The Marshall company based at the Briannia Works in Gainsborough
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