A free 36-page full-color brochure is available from Philadelphia Gear Corporation, King of Prussia, Pa., illustrating and describing the company's unique facilities for manufacturing and testing high-capacity, high-precision gears and gear drives. It is a picture tour of one of the most unusual manufacturing plants in this country.
Included in the brochure is a description of some recent marine applications of the company's equipment such as marine gear drives totaling 60,000 hp used to power the triple screw of U.S. Coast Guard icebreakers Polar Sea and Polar Star; 9,100-hp marine gear drives used in integrated tug-barge combinations; and four 25,000-hp gear synchronizing main propulsion clutches and three 3,000-hp high-speed reducers used aboard each of 34 Spruance-class U.S. Navy destroyers.
For a free copy of the brochure,
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