The GM Whirlfire gas turbine engines were developed in the 1950s by the research division of General Motors Corporation and fitted to concept vehicles...
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1960s–1980s Detroit Diesel Series 149 1974–1995 Detroit Diesel Series 92 GM Whirlfire engine, including: 1953 GT-300 1954 GT-302 1956 GT-304 1958 GT-305 1964...
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Williams International GM Whirlfire engine, comparable series of contemporaneous prototype engines "Chrysler turbine engines and cars". www.allpar.com...
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improved highway infrastructure. The Whirlfire gas turbine engines fitted to the Firebird concept cars and other GM concept buses and trucks are free-turbine...
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concepts in the 1950s; to demonstrate the engine's practicality, GM fitted a copy of the same GT-300 "Whirlfire" engine from Firebird I into an "old-look" TDH-4512...
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September 2022. "Allison Given Responsibility For Marketing Whirlfire GMT-305 Gas Turbine Engine". AllisoNews. Vol. XVIII, no. 28. Allison Division, General...
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designed by Harley J. Earl, while its Whirlfire Turbo-Power engine was developed by Charles L. McCuen and the GM Research Laboratories Division. Driving...
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Detroit Diesel (category Engine manufacturers of the United States)
transmission and Whirlfire-branded gas turbine businesses of the Allison Division, forming the Detroit Diesel-Allison Division. 1974: The Series 92 engine was introduced...
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Gas turbine (redirect from Gas-Turbine Engine)
lag. General Motors fitted the GT-30x series of gas turbines (branded "Whirlfire") to several prototype buses in the 1950s and 1960s, including Turbo-Cruiser...
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