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MAN B&W Diesel Toasts A

New Century

It's 100 times two and a little dose of irony at MAN B&W Diesel A/S. This past December, the engine company held a double ceremony celebrating two milestones to go down in the company's history log — the delivery of the 100th

MC-engine which coincendently occurred the day of MAN B&W's cen- tennial celebration.

Stepping back to 1898, when MAN

B&W accepted its first engine from

Frederikshavns Jernost0beri og Maskin- vaerksted, (now known as Frederik- shavn Iron Foundry and Engineering

Works), the unit was given the name "Alpha One." Its duplicate, the Alpha

Nine was constructed that same year, with a horizontal design. Known as the

U-series, the pair of "Alphas" made their mark in 1901 when combustion engines were main propulsion machinery with the eventual adaptation of the horizontal design to vertical below-deck installa- tion. The Alpha One, a single-cylinder, four stroke hot bulb engine was first used was for a winch-drive aboard a (Continued on bottom of page 51)

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