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Too Old For This - Chapter 18 - Part 1

*Warning Adult Content*     

Saturday night was a blur and Leroy could only remember the supercharged feeling and the overwhelming warp that was the sexual chemistry between him and Zachary.   

They had gone to bed sometime around eleven in the evening and how Leroy was coasting between being half awake and dead asleep in the early hours of the morning.

During the periods when he would be somewhat awake, he would reach out for Zachary... touching the man's arm or tracing the sharpness of his face and times, when he was dead asleep his mind, would refresh him on the previous night's events, reliving their kisses and touches.

In one of the brief half-awake trances, Leroy had reached out for Zachary and the man just wasn't there.

Leroy frowned, reaching out further and just like before, it was just the feel of a hard mattress covered in a bedsheet.

The younger man opened his eyes to confirm what his hands had told him.

He got up quickly, hurrying out of the room just to find Zachary sitting on the sofa in the living room, heaving with every breath.    

"Zachary?" the younger man asked, squinting at the man in front of him, who seemed to be struggling to breathe.

"What's wrong?"    

Zachary looked over at Leroy, opening his mouth and then closing it back again before shaking his head.

"Nothing."    

"Don't do that. What's wrong?" Leroy asked in a stern voice, approaching the sofa.

"Let me help you."      

"I don't know, not breathing well. I feel like I'm going to pass out when I get up," Zachary admitted and Leroy's eyes went wide.      

"I can go back home and grab my mum's car..." he said, looking up at the clock.

"Fuck, how far is the nearest emergency room?"      

Zachary shook his head.

"I don't need an emergency room. I just need something to eat and some rest."    

Leroy looked back down at Zachary, who was heaving, rocking and shivering all at once.

"Zachary, you need to go to the emergency room."      

"I don't..."

"I'm taking you to the emergency room," Leroy said, ignoring Zachary.

He walked over to the kitchen, grabbing a frozen dinner before putting it in the microwave.

When it was done, he picked it up and dropped it on the coffee table with a fork.      

"Have this. Have me on the dial if you need me. I'm going to run back home for a bit and come get you, okay?" Leroy said, rushing to the door and putting on his shoes.  

He looked ridiculous, of course, in Zachary's pajama pants that were too big for him and the shirt he hadn't changed from yesterday but that wasn't important now.      

"I'll be back in twenty. Hold on," the younger man whispered before opening the front door and heading out.

He was back in the next half hour with a car and soon he was helping Zachary into his wheelchair and into the car.    

"Hold on, I'll try my best to get you there as fast as I can without getting a ticket," Leroy said, looking at Zachary who now had his eyes close and was still breathing heavily.

Leroy gave him a concerned look when he didn't get a response but swallowed his worry as pulled out of the driveway.  

The drive to the local emergency room didn't take too long but since it was the weekend there were more people than usual and Leroy had to wait with Zachary for over an hour until their number was called.

At one point, a nurse offered a nebulizer when Leroy started to complain a little too much.

Eventually, Zachary was seen by a doctor and all that was really recommended was rest after he got an IV drip.

Zachary had... in practical terms... been exhausted.    

The whole situation frazzled Leroy but Zachary acted like it was business as usual, eating food from a hospital cafeteria tray as the IV ran out.     

The ride back to Zachary's place was painfully quiet.

The older man had his forehead pressed against the passenger seat's glass as he looked out into the moving street.

Leroy was silent, not doing much but giving Zachary the occasional look when he had the chance.  

The silence was killing them both but neither knew where to start.

Zachary was more embarrassed than anything and Leroy was flustered, still absorbing all the shock and panic from the Sunday morning.    

 "Zachary?" the younger man called out when he realized that he'd been driving them for over fifteen minutes without a word.

"Umm, how are you doing?"  

The older man blinked for a bit, sighing against the window's glass before making himself sit up straight on the passenger seat.

"I feel okay," the man said, shrugging under the branded hospital blanket they'd been allowed to take with them.

"I'm just a little... embarrassed?"

The pause between his words made Leroy raise a brow as he shifted gears.    

"Embarrassed?"  

"Yeah, I didn't want you ever to see that..." the older man trailed.

"I thought I was fine. I felt a bit bad but I didn't think I would crash like that..."  

Leroy blinked, coming to a realization.

"This is normal?"      

The older man sighed, fidgeting under the blanket.

"It happens once in a while... if I don't take care of myself..."    

"So, it's normal? Common? Expected?" Leroy was laying out our synonyms now and Zachary looked around as he started to feel claustrophobic having nowhere to run.  

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September 11, 1976

Phil McNeill

New Musical Express

If punters queue when they’ve already got tickets…

…You’re witnessing A Phenomen. And such was the situation when Queen played the Edinburgh Festival - with supporters of The Young Pretender paying their man and his men the ultimate tribute… But what of the music? What of the future? Is our combination-clad Hero prancing up a blind alley?

It’s a freezing Edinburgh wind that whips up the bare slope by the Playhouse Theatre to torment the massed masochists who queue, strung out a full quarter of a mile, for Queen’s first British gig of 1976.

Masochists? Am I revealing my prejudice against the four wonderboys already? Actually, no: masochists because they’ve all got tickets already, and, while the pub the other side of the theatre stands almost empty, these kids are catching pneumonia for nothing in their impatience to reach their already allotted seats.

Baffled, photographer Chalkie Davies and I forsake the Scotch queue for the one inside the pub…

Later, in the Playhouse, Supercharge do their obscene thing to the delight of the packed audience. They’ve lost keyboardist Iain Bradshow, at least for tonight, and the consequent weakening in the band’s already clanky rhythmic mesh is disturbing. But that famed Scots audience does its nut.

Whether it’s the Bay City Rollers spot, the new punk rock leapabout or a completely serious, lopsided semi-funk song, the response is probably as strong as Superchange have ever had anywhere - and this is distinctly an off night!

The Liverpool layabouts troop off and the “We want Queen” chants strike up as scurrying roadies prepare a spartan stage: no clever backdrops and stuff, just Roger Taylor’s mounds of cymbals in front of that ever-present gong and Brian May’s mountain of AC30s.

Darkness...gaspo… a clashing gong… squeals of delight from the youth next to me...yer usual symphonic electronic atmospheric fanfare sort of thing… fading up into the Gilbert and Sullivan middle section of “Bohemian Rhapsody”...a welling up of dry ice...clamorous welcome from the audience..the youth next to me digs his elbows in my ribs and bounces on his seat in delirium…

And they’re on, racing straight out of the recorded “Bohemian Rhapsody” into a live rendition of the heavy riff section that follows. Lights flash madly, there’s smoke all over the place, the youth next to me is screaming with joy, as are 3,000 other lunatic Scotspeople. If explosions aren’t going off it feels like it, and I jot down what Freddie Mercury is wearing in an attempt to keep a grip on my reeling brain.

A white boiler suit, it says here. What professionalism. That’s like a war correspondent noting the time as the wall he’s leaning on gets demolished by a tank.

The relentless sensory bombardment continues as Queen bomb out of “BoRhap” - “just gotta get right outta here”, and how can I disagree? - into a harsh melange of heavy metal riffs plastered with flash harmonies, which in turn gives way to a fast intrumental.

Basically it’s rubbish, a theatrical synthesis of the grossest lumps of regimented noise the sometime power trio can contrive. As they thunder away Mercury emerges from the wings once more, looking like a frog in a balletic white skintight catsuit, and magisterially conjures up giant flashes that erupt deafeningly out of the stage.

The audience do likewise from their serried seats.

Queen have arrived, in more ways than one. Britain’s most successful group of the decade poutingly confront their loyal subjects.

The drift of the piece is obvious, maybe. The crowd loves ‘em and the critic hates them. Well, as it happens I quite like them, but generally that’s a fair picture of rock press attitudes to Queen: at the end of the gig, when the only possible view of the band involved standing on the shoulders of the person jumping up and down on the seat in front of you, I picked out two isolated, sour faces. Critics.

It wasn’t always like that: briefly, at the beginning of ‘75, Queen had a mass audience and critical respect. Dave Downing, whose newly published book, Future Rock, ranges incisively across the whole spectrum of heavyweight rock - Dylan, Reed, Bowie, Floyd, et al - reviewed “Sheer Heart Attack” alongside Sparks’ “Propaganda” in Let It Rock, January 1975:

“I find Ron Mael’s lyrics offensively lacking any conviction but pride in their own cleverness…. The arrangements conquer all in their streamlined assurance…. I have visions of a Gilbert O’Sullivan gone progressive….”

Change that to Gilbert and Sullivan and it could easily be directed at “A Night At The Opera”. However, Downing had this to say of “Sheer Heart Attack”:

“In stark contrast we have Queen’s third album….this is the best new band I’ve heard for a long, long time….Queen have convinced me that the division of rock into heavy soft has been largely a way of covering up the lack of energy in either. Whether rocking, ballading, whatever….they’ve got energy to spare. They have the old Beatles-style oomph.

“....Brian May’s guitar stalks Freddie Mercury’s vocals with as much power, and probably more ingenuity, than Ronno achieved in the heady days of ‘Panic In Detroit’....

“....Freddie Mercury’s voice is equally amazing, hampered only by the lack of lyrics to do it and the music justice. Some rock bands get hampered by depth-lyrics; I think Queen would just grow.

“But that’s a hope rather than a criticism. The superb gloss on this record covers the real gold, rather than, as I fear in Sparks’ case, just substitutes for it….”

Right, Queen at the time of “Sheer Heart Attack” were poised, ready to choose pretty much whichever direction and status they fancied. They had fought through the original drawbacks of being camp followers churning out rather grotesque Led Zeppelin rip-offs, to become a tough, stylish unit coasting on the back of a devastating single, “Killer Queen”.

Although they lacked Bowie’s way with words, the initial implications of the name still clung to them, and it seemed, listening to “Sheer Heart Attack”, that all they needed were some hot lyrics and a little discipline to instate them as not only the most popular Britrockers since Bowie, but also the best.

The first thing that hits you on that album, after a snatch of fairground FX is vibrant power as May leads the ensemble through the whirlwind of “Brighton Rock”. It explodes with a kind of seaside energy to match his mundane holiday romance lyrics, and stakes out May’s own preferred patch on the words map: storytelling.

That type of power is almost entirely absent from “Opera”, and even in “Brighton Rock” it gets horribly dissipated by a ridiculous guitar solo, May following himself up and down the scale in a meaningless exercise quite divorced from the rest of the number.

Another type of power also missing from  “Opera”, is found in “Now I’m Here”, a Who-ish (“I Can See for Miles”) feel leading into brilliant beefy harmonies - very much in the mould of Roy Thomas Baker, Queen producer throughout their career, and now used to good use on Sunfighter’s “Drag Race Queen” - which wouldn’t get a look-in among all the breathy harmonies of “Opera”.

It’s great rock, strong and goodtime, apparently about Queen’s US tour with Mott the Hoople.

Elsewhere on “Sheer Heart Attack”, however, lay the seeds of Queen’s decline.

“Bring Back That Leroy Brown” was the first indication of their capabilities completely outside rock. As such it was immaculately performed, a camp minstrel pastiche, but unwelcome.

“Lap Of The Gods (Part One)” featured and unnecessarily ostentatious intro; “Flick Of The Wrist”, a murkily heavy song with a uplifting Baker buzz of a chorus, May’s guitar splattered all over the place in another facet of aggression that would soon disappear, was unfortunately a prototype for the appalling “Death On Two Legs”.

“Death”, the opening track of “ANATO”, is seemingly aimed at their previous manager to John Reid. Astounding dense musically, its lyrics are horribly strident and self-righteous, a blinkered, vindictive tirade that says more about the writer than his subject.

This sort of unflinching immaturity epitomises the Queen scene to some extent: infants on the loose with the weapon of technology, everything sublimated to technique.

“Flick Of The Wrist”, its predecessor, was similarly nasty - and apparently dealt with the same topic - but it succeeds where “Death” does not because the singing is sublimated to the music and, particularly, because the words are secondary to the melody.

In Edinburgh “Flick Of The Wrist” comes fourth, and it’s not as good as the record, possibly because they’re struggling somewhat on the faster songs.

They’ve already done “Sweet Lady” from ANATO”, Mercury singing well and the band thundering confidently. But suddenly Brian May’s guitar goes out of tune from all the crashing it’s received, and he drags the tempo. The final crescendo almost catches fire, but could do better.

Freddie toasts Edinburgh with champagne before he and May, moodily posed under blue spots, venture timorously into the medievally romantic “White Queen” from “Queen II”. Freddie goes to the piano for May’s curling, echoed solo, and we catch up with ourselves on “Flick”.

Here May’s problem is highlighted, he can’t get a decent uptempo solo together. The song is pounding along, but it’s like a cover-up, charging through seemingly pointless changes with throwaway solos, as if they’re attempting to dazzle you with workrate, a treasure trove of superficialities.

John Deacon plays a strong bass, holding up the song if necessary, and Roger Taylor, while seeming rather detached from proceedings up on his high riser, plays solid, varied drums. Mercury’s singing is superb, and on this might it’s mainly May whose playing isn’t quite up to scratch.

The medley comes next, and it brings a little warmth to the garish, posturing event. John Deacon’s “You’re My Best Friend” comprises the first part. Like “Misfire”, his semi-Caribbean pop-rocker on “Sheer Heart Attack”, it’s the friendliest track on “Opera”, and, while May and Mercury mess with every musical genre known to man, the only straight rock song apart from Taylor’s exhilarating “I’m In Love With My Car”.

Onstage, Mercury’s lead vocal floats beautifully on the band’s okay harmonies, and the audience clap along with the lazy rhythm. May’s guitar solo isn’t loud enough, and he hits a horrible chord at the end of it, but it’s a good break.

The two-note chime at the end of “You’re My Best Friend”, a similar device to the end of “Killer Queen”, leads into “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

On record, “Bo Rhap” epitomises the heavy-handed idiocy that bugs their last album. There are actually a few great touches in the rambling epic, notably the guitar break that follows the operatic bit, with its sudden halved phrases towards the end and the subtle way May’s fade out figure is continued by Mercury’s solo piano. But the rest is cumbersome and, where not plainly stupid, pompous and unimaginative.

For some reason Brian May seemed to have lost all feeling for rock on “Opera”, and the first guitar break on “Rhapsody” was the album’s sole unscrambled solo bar the period piece, “Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon”. And as for Beelzebub…

But the words of “Bohemian Rhapsody” are even worse than the music. The basic scenario would seem to be the romanticised alienation of a “poor boy” who indulges Mercury’s gun fetish by killing a man, leading to some kind of tug-of-war between, er, two forces. Life and death? Heaven and hell? Does Freddie know?

There’s that brief stab of “just gotta get out of here” defiance, but we finish on the fatalism of “anyway the wind blows…” A vague tale of idealised emotions that quite possibly means nothing at all.

Mercury’s songs do have a tendency to be vague to the point of meaninglessness - where they’re not utterly trivial anyway. Triviality I can take- “Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon”, for instance, where Queen’s technical skill turns a brief, twee ditty into a tour-de-force, with a great guitar break in what I think of as Brian May’s Mrs. Dale’s Diary style and one particularly wonderful harmony line on “there he goes again” - but the depths of pretension are plumbed on Mercury’s more “serious” songs.

These are actually fairly rare, but Mercury’s deepest opus outside of “Rhapsody” is probably “In The Lap Of The Gods” on “Sheer Heart Attack”, a portentous, monolithic singalong which I like a lot musically, but whose only discernible meaning is, like the conclusion of “Rhapsody”, that old vague predestination schtick.

The rest of Mercury’s oeuvre consists of live ballads (the melodically poignant, lyrically incomprehensible “Lily Of The Valley” from “Attack” and the more narcissistic, less focussed, meandering “Love Of My Life”, least memorable on “Opera”); bitchiness (that horrible duo, “Flick Of The Wrist” and “Death On Two Legs”); and weird period pieces (“Leroy Brown”, “Lazing”, and “Seaside Rendezvous” from “Opera”).

“Seaside Rendezvous” is pretty interesting stuff, illustrating the bizarre purism that prompts Queen to boast “No Synthesisers” on their album sleeves. A long, ‘20s-style piece, it’s fully orchestrated with instrumental passages by both brass and woodwind sections - performed entirely on vocals!

It’s astounding. Queen are perfectionists, as we all know; perfect confectionists. Even Mercury’s lead vocal is done, as on a lot of the album, line by line to get that bursting out of the speaker effect.

And therein lies their undoing, for they seem to have spent so long working on “A Night At The Opera” that they completely lost sight of the record they were making, coming out with shallow perfection without the least hint of the fire of “Sheer Heart Attack”.

However, returning to Freddie’s oeuvre: the next song in the Edinburgh medley, following on from “Bohemian Rhapsody” - and missing the operatics, thank god - is “Killer Queen”.

What a song. Although they take it slower than on record it still sounds slightly rushed, the ideas fall so thick and fast.

It has so many virtues that “Opera” lacks: interesting music (that got neglected on “ANATO” in favour of performance); brevity; flash (“Opera” is positively pedestrian compared to the swagger of this mid-tempo marvel); and it’s unpretentious in its triviality, something that none of the work - at - it - for - six - months - to - get - the - vocals - sounding - like - George - Formby’s ukelele trivia on “Opera” could claim.

Back live, it transforms into the noisy “March Of The Black Queen” from “Queen II” and thence to the end of “Rhapsody”. Kimono Taylor’s gong jerks us into a snazzy rendition of “Leroy Brown”, purely instrumental, and end medley.

“Brighton Rock” follows, red hot and awful tight, Taylor’s falsetto screaming over the top, until…

Oh no, it’s this guitar virtuoso bit, where the others go off and leave May to fiddle about with his patented delayed action devices. The man has little idea of stage craft standing awkwardly on Freddie’s promontory and dashing back to his amp every now and then to twiddle another knob. The performance is clever, but he’s hardly playing great music - enough’s quite enough.

At points during this intermediate solo May hits something good - a glassy, Japanesey section, a mellow, symphonic bit - but his individual slot is plagued by the fault that haunts Queen and devalues what good stuff they do play: they’ve got no taste. Don’t know good from bad.

They can perform, and they’re very bright boys (according to Larry Pryce’s unwonderfully written and uninformative Official Biography Of Queen, Brian may or may not have a PhD in Astronomy, Mercury a degree in graphics and illustration, Deacon an honours degree in electronics, and Taylor a degree in biology) but as for taste…

As if to emphasise that point, Taylor returns to do his dumb trick with lager on his tomtoms and they lumber into a bunch of monotonous, archetypal heavy metal riffs.

Next song, “‘39”, has the four down front - May on acoustic and Taylor on tambourine and bass drum.

My, they look well-coifed. Mercury demonstrates his fine voice again.

A newie, “You Take My Breath Away”, from the album currently known as “A Day At The Races” - half-finished - shows Freddie still pludding the fragile ballad vein, a hesitant, precious ditty accompanied by lone piano, old fashioned and unexceptional.

But then it’s Brian’s big moment, composition-wise: “The Prophet’s Song.” In Pryce’s book May explains that the plot came to him in a dream: “...a dream concerning revenge, only in the dream I wasn’t able to work out what it was revenge for.”

So out of the astronomer’s subconscious comes this Noah’s Ark parable seemingly set in the present, with a ship full of humans apparently heading off into space.

Musically it’s “Old English”, according to Roger Taylor, the rock equivalent of a Prussian military division marching to the Crusades, marred by the most fatuously self-indulgent acapella nonsense imaginable in the middle.

If Queen were chameleons to begin with (Zep meets Bowie), they’re even more that way inclined now, changing personality completely from one song to the next (George Formby meets Cecil B. DeMille meets…) It’s a treatment to which May’s songs lend themselves.

“Good Company” is a very English tale, another vague moral story, done Formby style, with an extraordinary guitar ensemble imitating a complete trad jazz band, another labour of months for a trivial piece of flash.

“‘39”, the acoustic song, seems to be another slice of science fiction, an obscure folk tale which disguises its meaning frustratingly well. Nice feel, though.

Onstage “The Prophet’s Song” is launched amid billows of dry ice and taped wind. As they muscle their way through the heavy chorus I keep expecting them to bump into one another in the confusion, but they manage not to. Anyway, the others clear off when Mercury goes into his ridiculous echoed vocals workout, a one-man Swingle Singers, appalling narcissism.

The audience, to their shame, seem entranced by the spectacle of the great poseur and his myriad voices. Nauseating.

At the end of the song to revolving globes descend and a tape of jangling piano speeds dizzyingly. The globes rise - UFOs taking off?

Anyway, it gives Fred a chance to change into a grotesque black outfit, and suddenly we’re back into the flashing lights/strobes.racing adrenalin scene again with “Stone Cold Crazy”, very fast and heavy, May playing a good scientific solo.

Freddie goes pianoing again for “Doing All Right” from “Queen”, slow and laconic with waterfalling guitar and lovely harmonies, but that gives way to a lousy solo over an unexpectedly Brazilian riff and more unnecessary changes. What are they trying to hide?

“Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon” is neat, and then the crowd get “Keep Yourself Alive”, which they’ve been baying for. It’s an okay song, but they do it terribly heavy and insult the listener with their soulless, declamatory attempts at communication.

Queen almost boogie on “Tie Your Momma Down”, also from the new LP, the most straightforward song so far with a slide break that veers towards a 12-bar. Freddie postures crassly under the rather inept lighting.

“Liar” from “Queen” comes in on a Bo Diddley beat, and as it gets into typical Queen HM jaggedness May slings out a real nasty phrase that sneers at the ineffectual stuff he’s played all evening.

As it dissolves into aimlessness it becomes obvious that Queen live are some great songs, an image and a lot of noise. Their heavy metal is no better than the likes of Nazareth, unfocussed, with no real dynamics outside of structural party tricks. A cover-up job for essentially lumpen music… yet they are capable of so much more.

“Lap Of The Gods” picks things up, its relentless chorus rising and falling on good chords - a rare commodity for Queen, as is its stable rhythm - and as the stage vanishes beneath dry ice they kiss goodbye.

Now this I don’t believe. Never in my life, outside of the likes of the Rollers, have I encountered such a hysterical response to a band. It’s like a riot, kids charging about in the smoky darkness, and if Queen don’t get back there soon this lot are going to knock the place down.

The encore is the great “Now I’m Here”, followed by their “Rock’n’roll” medley of “Big Spender” and “Jailhouse Rock.” They really shouldn’t do that. Mercury’s got no idea about getting down and having a good time, and his attempts to get audience participation are laughable. It’s scrappy stuff, and even their rock’n’roll is spoilt by too many changes!

As for where Queen go from here, the two songs they played from the next album were undistinguished, and can give no hint of what it will contain.

Nowever, it’s pretty obvious they’ve driven so far up their particular blind alley that there’s virtually no hope of them ever fulfilling the potential that was there in “Sheer Heart Attack.” They could have been giants of real music, but it seems they are destined to remain the most perfect indulgence in rock. Masters of style, void of content.

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High Quality Silent Diesel Generator Set

Silent generator set is a widely used generating equipment in the current market. This type of generator is suitable for noise in the urban environment. The special noise reduction and silencing material for silent diesel generator sets can greatly suppress the extension of mechanical noise and reduce the noise to less than 75 decibels.

Silent generator set recommended: Starlight Power

Starlight silent generator set adopts vibration isolation, noise reduction, sound insulation, sound absorption, fireproof, high temperature resistance, rainproof, anticorrosion and so on noise reduction technical measures, which can greatly reduce its noise index. This series of genset has remarkable low noise performance, multi-layer shielding impedance mismatch type soundproof cover, reducing the impact of noise on users. Starlight soundproof generator noise level can reach 70 dB even better, with low fuel consumption, reliable performance and easy operation features. Power range is from 20KW to 2000KW.

Starlight silent diesel generator set can be divided into two types, one is common silent type with power range from 20kw to 500kw. Another is container silent diesel genset with power range from 500kw to 2000kw. We can recommend suitable generator type according to users’ requirements. No matter it is common silent generator or container silent generator, it is waterproof and anti-rust.

Brand Recommended: Cummins, Perkins, Volvo and Yuchai.

Advantages of Cummins generator: Good quality, low fuel consumption, low noise, big output power and reliable performance. Their reliable stability, economy, power performance, durability and environmental safety is welcomed by customers all over the world, and Cummins offers a warranty of the global ”Three Gurantee”. Besides, Cummins generator adopts electronic governor, with protection functions such as alarm and automatic parking for too high temperature in the cooling water, too low oil pressure or too high speed, etc.

Cummins has built a professional service network worldwide, which provides after-sales services and supplys spare parts for 24 hours a day.

Accessories: 24V DC free-maintenance battery, industrial silencer, elbows, and bellows, maintenance tool, etc.

Advantages of Perkins generator: Perkins is committed to product quality, environment and economy. Strict implementation of ISO9001 and ISO14001 standards, the product has high emission standards, high economy, high stability, high reliability and other characteristics. Perkins diesel generator usually adopts Stamford or Leroy-Somer brushless self- excitation AC generator. Perkins generator control cabinet is basically equipped with voltmeter, ammeter, water temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, controller, emergency stop button, preheat button, battery voltmeter, timetable, phase selection switch, etc. Perkins features with stable running, small vibration, low fuel consumption, low oil consumption, long running life and short overhaul and low noise.

Advantages of Volvo generator: Volvo Penta is the only manufacturer in the world to focus on inline four-cylinder and six-cylinder diesel engines, and it is in a leading position on this technology. Volvo generator adopts full electronic fuel injection control technology, with high performance and high reliability. It has the advantages of excellent starting performance, stable voltage, reliable operation, low emissions, low noise, convenient maintenance, etc. It has good economics and good adaptability to plateaus.

Typical features:

1. High load-bearing capacity and fast and reliable cold-start performance, low-resistance supercharger and fast-response fuel injection system make the engine have higher load-bearing capacity in a short recovery time.

2. The heater is installed in the intake manifold, making it easy to start the engine when the ambient temperature is low.

3. The appearance is small and exquisite compared with other products.

4. Smooth operation, low noise, optimized design of shock-absorbing body, precisely matched supercharger, low-speed cooling fan. Low exhaust emissions, low operating costs, typical smoke exhaustion is less than 1 Bosch unit;

Advantages of Yuchai generator: Yuchai mainly produces 6-cylinder, 12-cylinder and 16-cylinder generator diesel engines. It is a well-known engine brand in China with a wide power range from 20kw to 2400KW. Yuchai not only produces diesel engines for land generators, but also produces marine generators and gas generators. Yuchai generator adopts four valves, supercharging and intercooling, electronically controlled high-pressure common rail, and electronically controlled single pump configuration. It is characterized by energy saving and environmental protection, high reliability, stable operation, good transient speed regulation, strong loading capacity, and low lubricating oil consumption, low vibration and easy maintenance.

Although Yuchai is a Chinese brand engine, it has 12 overseas marketing offices, 3 overseas marketing regions of marine and G-Drive engines throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Yuchai generator is cheap and good quality, is the preferred brand of silent generator.

As we know that daily maintenance of silent generators is very important. How should we maintain the generator? To keep all parts clean, always check the tightening of parts such as hub bolts, nuts and split pins to keep them secure and reliable. Grease shall be added to the swing shaft sleeve, front wheel shaft and steering knuckles, etc; check the oil level of idler wheel, guide wheel, track roller, etc. frequently, add lubricating oil if necessary, and clean and replace oil regularly as required. Only in this way can the service life of the generator set be improved. Baffles should be appropriately added near the ventilation inlet and outlet to reduce fan noise and reduce the adverse effects of external wind.

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Big Ag turns to peas to meet soaring global protein demand

(Reuters) – Cargill, the global grains trader, sees the future of protein in the humble pea.

FILE PHOTO: A box of Cheerios cereal, fortified with soy and pea protein, is seen in this photo illustration in Wilmette, Illinois, U.S., September 12, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo

In a joint venture at a Wisconsin plant, flour milled from Iowa yellow peas is mixed with water and spun at high speed through stainless steel drums, separating the protein from starch and fiber.

The resulting powder ends up blended into waffle mixes, sports drinks, nutrition bars and protein shakes – small examples of a much larger push by the world’s biggest agriculture firms to find alternative plant-based proteins to feed people and livestock worldwide.

“When we looked at where is the future going, the pea is the up-and-coming thing,” said David Henstrom, Cargill Inc’s vice-president of starches, sweeteners and texturizers.

Peas are in many ways the ideal modern American food: protein-rich, plant-based and gluten-free. While the market remains relatively small, the demand for pea powder and other emerging protein sources is soaring, from the middle classes in China and the health-conscious in California to livestock producers and fish farmers who need to fatten animals on ever-tighter budgets.

Cargill and its competitors – such as Archer Daniels Midland (ADM.N) and Richardson International, the biggest Canadian grain handler – are investing in specialty ingredients in search of higher profit margins than they can extract from bigger commodity crops such as soybeans, corn and wheat.

(For a graphic on rising global protein consumption and demand for peas, see: tmsnrt.rs/2Hc8Wjw )

Cargill invested an undisclosed sum in January in a joint venture with PURIS, a family-run company that started in Iowa as a seed company and now owns the Wisconsin pea-powder plant. The two firms are also working to boost the protein content in peas through cross-breeding, which has not been previously reported.

Cargill rival ADM is building its own pea processing plant in North Dakota and signing contracts with farmers to buy and grow yellow peas, Ken Campbell, ADM’s president of specialty ingredients, said in a statement to Reuters. Company researchers are also studying another 30 types of protein options, including nuts and seeds.

Pea plants are shown at a PURIS seed plot in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in this June 2017 handout photo obtained by Reuters March 16, 2018. Bill Phelps/Puris/Handout via REUTERS

Other firms are trying draw more protein from canola, oats and many other so-called emerging proteins, and Cargill has explored insect-based feed for fish and poultry.

Seed and chemical firm DowDuPont Inc (DWDP.N) told Reuters it plans to launch a canola seed supercharged with protein through traditional cross-breeding as soon as next year.

Richardson International started construction in April of a C$30-million ($23 million) laboratory in Winnipeg to study proteins and other food ingredients. The firm is exploring a move into pea and oat protein concentrates that could start next year, senior vice-president of technology Chuck Cohen said in an interview. France-based food ingredient company Roquette is building plant in Manitoba to produce pea proteins in North America, which currently imports from Europe.

SOARING DEMAND

Projections for soaring sales from alternative plant proteins have enticed large grain traders that make money by buying, selling, storing, shipping and trading crops. Years of oversupplied grain markets and thin margins have squeezed the trading operations of ADM, Bunge Ltd (BG.N), Cargill and Louis Dreyfus Co – known collectively as the “ABCDs” – although conditions have improved recently.

Global demand for protein – whether from meat, aquaculture or plant sources – is booming in part due to rising incomes in emerging markets in Asia and Africa, industry analysts say. In North America, consumers are shifting their diet preferences to include more protein, and 35 percent of U.S. households last year said they follow a specific protein-focused diet, such as Paleo or low-carbohydrate, according to research conducted by Nielsen.

The trend is driving a shift in grocery shopping. In the year ended July 8, 2017, sales of plant-based food and beverages in the U.S. increased 14.7 percent over the previous period, according to Nielsen. Sales of meat alternatives are growing especially within prepared foods, an indication that consumers are trying options once only available in niche stores.

Global pea protein sales amounted to $73.4 million in 2016, according to research firm Grand View Research, but are forecast to quadruple by 2025, reaching $313.5 million in sales, helped by popular diets free of gluten and lactose and an expanding middle class in developing nations.

Even with such explosive growth, pea proteins would have high potential upside because they would account for a fraction of the projected $48.77 billion global animal and plant protein ingredients market by 2025, which is led by meat, according to Grand View.

POWERING UP THE PEA

Cargill’s partnership with PURIS includes breeding pea crops for higher protein content. Standard peas contain 18 to 22 percent protein, but PURIS this year will start selling peas packed with 28 percent protein for planting by farmers in the northern Plains and Midwest, said PURIS president Tyler Lorenzen. Once processed, pea powders can contain about 80 percent protein.

Creating new varieties of protein-packed peas, however, can take seven years or more because it is done through conventional breeding rather than genetic modification, Lorenzen said. The lack of genetic modification, however, also attracts many consumers who prefer more organic foods, said Pascal Leroy, head of Roquette’s pea and new protein business line.

In Canada, one of the world’s biggest pea exporters, at least three pea protein plants are planned or increasing production, including Verdient Foods in Saskatchewan, whose investors include Titanic director James Cameron. That gives farmers an incentive to vary plantings that are now dominated by wheat and canola.

Roquette is building what it says will be the world’s biggest pea plant in Manitoba, on the belief the vegetable has unique consumer appeal. German company Canadian Protein Innovation plans a plant in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Illinois-based ADM told Reuters it is building a new pea protein processing plant at the site of one of its soybean processing complexes in Enderlin, North Dakota. The location gives the company proximity to yellow pea producers and transportation to domestic and international customers, according to ADM’s Campbell.

ADM will launch its line of pea powders as an ingredient for food manufacturers early next year and introduce other plant-based protein product lines in the following two years, the company said, declining to give further details.

Unlike Cargill, ADM is seeking to boost pea protein levels in the processing plant – rather than through crop breeding – and is buying most of its supplies from nearby North Dakota farmers, the company said. ADM officials declined to detail how it can boost protein in a factory, citing competitive concerns.

Reporting by Rod Nickel and P.J. Huffstutter; Editing by Brian Thevenot

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Big Ag turns to peas to meet soaring global protein demand

(Reuters) – Cargill, the global grains trader, sees the future of protein in the humble pea.

FILE PHOTO: A box of Cheerios cereal, fortified with soy and pea protein, is seen in this photo illustration in Wilmette, Illinois, U.S., September 12, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Young/File Photo

In a joint venture at a Wisconsin plant, flour milled from Iowa yellow peas is mixed with water and spun at high speed through stainless steel drums, separating the protein from starch and fiber.

The resulting powder ends up blended into waffle mixes, sports drinks, nutrition bars and protein shakes – small examples of a much larger push by the world’s biggest agriculture firms to find alternative plant-based proteins to feed people and livestock worldwide.

“When we looked at where is the future going, the pea is the up-and-coming thing,” said David Henstrom, Cargill Inc’s vice-president of starches, sweeteners and texturizers.

Peas are in many ways the ideal modern American food: protein-rich, plant-based and gluten-free. While the market remains relatively small, the demand for pea powder and other emerging protein sources is soaring, from the middle classes in China and the health-conscious in California to livestock producers and fish farmers who need to fatten animals on ever-tighter budgets.

Cargill and its competitors – such as Archer Daniels Midland (ADM.N) and Richardson International, the biggest Canadian grain handler – are investing in specialty ingredients in search of higher profit margins than they can extract from bigger commodity crops such as soybeans, corn and wheat.

(For a graphic on rising global protein consumption and demand for peas, see: tmsnrt.rs/2Hc8Wjw )

Cargill invested an undisclosed sum in January in a joint venture with PURIS, a family-run company that started in Iowa as a seed company and now owns the Wisconsin pea-powder plant. The two firms are also working to boost the protein content in peas through cross-breeding, which has not been previously reported.

Cargill rival ADM is building its own pea processing plant in North Dakota and signing contracts with farmers to buy and grow yellow peas, Ken Campbell, ADM’s president of specialty ingredients, said in a statement to Reuters. Company researchers are also studying another 30 types of protein options, including nuts and seeds.

Pea plants are shown at a PURIS seed plot in Oskaloosa, Iowa, in this June 2017 handout photo obtained by Reuters March 16, 2018. Bill Phelps/Puris/Handout via REUTERS

Other firms are trying draw more protein from canola, oats and many other so-called emerging proteins, and Cargill has explored insect-based feed for fish and poultry.

Seed and chemical firm DowDuPont Inc (DWDP.N) told Reuters it plans to launch a canola seed supercharged with protein through traditional cross-breeding as soon as next year.

Richardson International started construction in April of a C$30-million ($23 million) laboratory in Winnipeg to study proteins and other food ingredients. The firm is exploring a move into pea and oat protein concentrates that could start next year, senior vice-president of technology Chuck Cohen said in an interview. France-based food ingredient company Roquette is building plant in Manitoba to produce pea proteins in North America, which currently imports from Europe.

SOARING DEMAND

Projections for soaring sales from alternative plant proteins have enticed large grain traders that make money by buying, selling, storing, shipping and trading crops. Years of oversupplied grain markets and thin margins have squeezed the trading operations of ADM, Bunge Ltd (BG.N), Cargill and Louis Dreyfus Co – known collectively as the “ABCDs” – although conditions have improved recently.

Global demand for protein – whether from meat, aquaculture or plant sources – is booming in part due to rising incomes in emerging markets in Asia and Africa, industry analysts say. In North America, consumers are shifting their diet preferences to include more protein, and 35 percent of U.S. households last year said they follow a specific protein-focused diet, such as Paleo or low-carbohydrate, according to research conducted by Nielsen.

The trend is driving a shift in grocery shopping. In the year ended July 8, 2017, sales of plant-based food and beverages in the U.S. increased 14.7 percent over the previous period, according to Nielsen. Sales of meat alternatives are growing especially within prepared foods, an indication that consumers are trying options once only available in niche stores.

Global pea protein sales amounted to $73.4 million in 2016, according to research firm Grand View Research, but are forecast to quadruple by 2025, reaching $313.5 million in sales, helped by popular diets free of gluten and lactose and an expanding middle class in developing nations.

Even with such explosive growth, pea proteins would have high potential upside because they would account for a fraction of the projected $48.77 billion global animal and plant protein ingredients market by 2025, which is led by meat, according to Grand View.

POWERING UP THE PEA

Cargill’s partnership with PURIS includes breeding pea crops for higher protein content. Standard peas contain 18 to 22 percent protein, but PURIS this year will start selling peas packed with 28 percent protein for planting by farmers in the northern Plains and Midwest, said PURIS president Tyler Lorenzen. Once processed, pea powders can contain about 80 percent protein.

Creating new varieties of protein-packed peas, however, can take seven years or more because it is done through conventional breeding rather than genetic modification, Lorenzen said. The lack of genetic modification, however, also attracts many consumers who prefer more organic foods, said Pascal Leroy, head of Roquette’s pea and new protein business line.

In Canada, one of the world’s biggest pea exporters, at least three pea protein plants are planned or increasing production, including Verdient Foods in Saskatchewan, whose investors include Titanic director James Cameron. That gives farmers an incentive to vary plantings that are now dominated by wheat and canola.

Roquette is building what it says will be the world’s biggest pea plant in Manitoba, on the belief the vegetable has unique consumer appeal. German company Canadian Protein Innovation plans a plant in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Illinois-based ADM told Reuters it is building a new pea protein processing plant at the site of one of its soybean processing complexes in Enderlin, North Dakota. The location gives the company proximity to yellow pea producers and transportation to domestic and international customers, according to ADM’s Campbell.

ADM will launch its line of pea powders as an ingredient for food manufacturers early next year and introduce other plant-based protein product lines in the following two years, the company said, declining to give further details.

Unlike Cargill, ADM is seeking to boost pea protein levels in the processing plant – rather than through crop breeding – and is buying most of its supplies from nearby North Dakota farmers, the company said. ADM officials declined to detail how it can boost protein in a factory, citing competitive concerns.

Reporting by Rod Nickel and P.J. Huffstutter; Editing by Brian Thevenot

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Pure Heaven: The Life and Fast Times of Fuel Altered Pioneer Leon Fitzgerald

Heaven.

Leon Fitzgerald was born in 1933, midway through the Great Depression, in Altus, Oklahoma. When he was 8, his family migrated to Southern California as they searched for a better life. His parents, Roy and Vera Fitzgerald, stayed with friends in Bakersfield and San Diego prior to settling in north Long Beach. There they rented a crowded garage apartment and took jobs working at nearby Douglas Aircraft to make ends meet.

As WWII wound down, the Fitzgeralds had saved enough money to buy a new home in Lynwood, California. “I attended Lynwood High and finished my last two years up at Compton College, which is where I got my diploma,” Leon remembers. “By that time, I had become totally engrossed in cars, so I decided not to pursue my education any further. A friend of mine named Stan Betel got me a job at P&S Foundry, which primarily poured small aluminum parts for the aircraft industry. It was quite an education for me.”

But foundry work was a hot and dirty business, and Fitzgerald wanted something better. By that time his father, Roy, had also made a career change and was working as a milkman for South Gate’s Royal Farms Dairy. He got his son a job working in the bottling and capping department, and when the timing was right, Leon shifted gears and started driving a milk truck. Though his first car was a ’40 Chevy coupe, by this time Leon’s daily driver was a ’49 Ford club coupe that he lowered, decked, and equipped with Appleton spotlights.

Life was good. That is, until the Korean War came along, and with it the draft. Private Leon Fitzgerald was assigned to an M48 tank battalion and sent to Frankfurt, Germany.

“Up until the time I got there, I had no idea what an M48 tank was. The Army taught me how to drive one, shoot one, tear down the 90mm main gun and 50mm side guns, and all that stuff. I spent two years doing that.”

Had to Have It

One day, Leon walked into a car dealership in Frankfurt and spotted a brand-new, red, ’52 MG TF sitting on the showroom floor. He just had to have it.

“I asked the salesman how much it cost, and he said, ‘$1,500 U.S.’ I called home and asked my mother to send me the money I had saved from selling my ’49 Ford and bought it. There was a kid from Kentucky in my company named Virgil Jones, and he I became pretty good friends. Since we both happened to have a lot of furlough time on our hands, we decided to see Europe. At the time, you could buy gas for about 15 cents a gallon, and you could fill the entire tank for about $2.50. We had a mechanic in town build us a rack on the back that would hold two foot lockers and a G.I. can, and we drove all over Europe, twice! We went skiing in the Swiss Alps. We went to Italy and saw Pompeii and Venice. We visited the Vatican. We went to Paris and visited the Louvre. We even visited the French Rivera.”

Leon was discharged from the Army in late 1954, and Uncle Sam shipped his prized MG back home for free. As it turned out, his sister Paula was looking for something sporty to drive, and her brother sold the car to her for exactly what he paid for it. Leon put the money down on a two-tone ’55 Mercury Montclair, and friend Dick Jackson (who had worked for a time at Sam and George Barris’ Lynwood shop) cut a couple of coils out of the springs, shaved and decked it, installed fender skirts, added a pair of Appletons, and just generally transformed it into a nice, SoCal-style custom. Nice enough, in fact, to attract a young female equestrian named Darlene Therrian, who worked at the Los Angeles River Riding Stable. The couple were married in 1956 and rented a small duplex in Huntington Park.

“Since I was in the Teamsters, they held my job for me at the dairy. Eventually, Darlene and I moved to Fullerton and rented a small apartment prior to our buying our first home. We met up with a bunch of people who were into drag racing. I had bought a brand-new ’56 Ford F-100 big-window pickup with a six-cylinder in it. A friend of Dick Jackson’s who did engine swaps found me a brand-new Oldsmobile V8, so we yanked out the six-cylinder and dropped in the Olds. Man, that thing could smoke the tires for a half a block. That was the beginning of my hot rodding days.”

Leon began street racing the F-100, which he later admitted wasn’t the smartest thing to do. “By then, Darlene was pregnant, and here I get this speeding ticket racing some guy down Atlantic Avenue in Long Beach.”

Darlene was even less amused after Leon nearly burned down the garage after installing a Weiand U-Fab log manifold with six Stromberg 97 carburetors that backfired and burned up the entire front end of the truck.

“The truck sat in the backyard for the longest time. I eventually ended up selling it as is. Somewhere along the line, the Oldsmobile engine also got sold. In the meantime, I’m driving a ’39 Chevy business coupe. With kids arriving, we put them in the trunk—it had no back seat—and drove that thing all over the place.”

Going Legit

Fitzgerald’s “legit” drag racing career began when he and Glenn McMullok built up another ’39 Chevy coupe and raced it with Rocket 88 power at the very first Smokers Car Club–hosted Fuel & Gas Championships in 1959 at Bakersfield.

“The first thing we did was break an axle, so we had to go and find one at a local wrecking yard in order to be able to run on Sunday. We raced that car up to the time I opened my first speed shop [Fitzgerald Racing Equipment], which was located on the front part of the lot where Jess Tyree had his header business in Fullerton. At the time, my brother-in-law, Norm Taylor, worked for Bell Auto Parts and was really helpful in my buying the right parts, which included Cragar wheels, Howard cams, and other stuff.”

In the early 1960s, Leon bought Glenn Ward’s dragster and formed a partnership with another milk man named Ted McMullen. The two installed a Potvin-supercharged Oldsmobile engine and went racing. Unfortunately, the car was crashed by friend Jack Eskelson during a licensing run, and that was the end of Leon’s dragster racing days.

“That’s when I ended up putting the Fiat together. Jack and I rented a building over by the Fullerton Airport and built the altered there. Actually, it was pretty much an antique by contemporary standards. It didn’t use round tubing for the main rails, only for the rollcage.” Fitzgerald ran that car for about a year, with a best pass of 9.55/154.90, and then sold it.

“There was a kid who was going to Fullerton Junior College named Richard Rockman who was putting together a blown-fuel small-block Chevy. He and I had been talking about putting the engine in the Fiat, but he got drafted and went to Vietnam in 1965. By the time he got out, I had already opened up Anaheim Speed Engineers. Jack and I were in the process of building Pure Heaven, which was a ’32 Bantam roadster. Rich had a friend who was in the catering truck business named R.T. Reed, and the three of us teamed up.”

From a booking perspective, Reed, Rockman & Fitzgerald’s Pure Heaven (best of 168.53 mph) became Southern California’s answer to Rich Guasco’s Northern California-based altered ego, Pure Hell. Then in 1966, Reed and Fitzgerald built Pure Heaven II, which was considered state of the art with its colorful red, white, and blue motif, and Moon Racing Cam–equipped, fuel-burning 427 Chevrolet rat motor.

“That car really put us on the map,” Leon said. “We won a bunch of fuel altered shows at Lions, Irwindale, and OCIR, and ran 7.60s at 200-plus mph.”

The Tour

Then along came 1968’s AA/Fuel Altered Tour.

“In mid-1968, we were contacted by Ira Litchey and Ben Crist from the Gold Agency in Chicago. The first Fuel Altered Tour consisted of Marcellus & Borsch in the Winged Express, Henry Harrison driving Nolan Pritchard’s Beaver Hunter, Leroy Chadderton with the Magnificent 7, and myself. I remember that I built an enclosed trailer here at the shop, and we used R.T.’s 392 Chrysler-powered ’60 Chevy station wagon as a tow vehicle. We ran from 15 to 20 dates that first year all over the U.S. and Canada.”

Although the tour had been a resounding success, it had been costly in other respects.

“When I went out on tour in 1968, Glenn had stayed behind to run the shop. It was really hard because neither of us was making very much money at the time, and we had growing families to support. When I came back, Glenn, who was building engines for the Campos Brothers Lo Blow II, had found a job elsewhere. We closed up the shop, and I went to work at Chrysler’s New Car Prep Department in Santa Fe Springs.”

For the new job Leon joined the UAW, which came with benefits. One was that he was allowed to take leaves of absence.

“Every summer I would take a leave and go on tour back east. However, after the second year, R.T. decided that he couldn’t keep doing this and had to go back to work. Now, the engine and trailer were mine, but the car belonged to him. I tried to work out a deal with him, but he didn’t seem interested. I ended up buying Lee LeBaron’s Between Heaven & Hell AA/FA and re-christened it Pure Heaven III. That was a first-class, pro-built car, but Lee could never get it to go straight. Turns out the rear end was three quarters of an inch out of square. Jack and I fixed it just in time for me to go out on tour.”

Pure Heaven III turned out to be a real runner. In 1971, the car won class at both the NHRA Winternationals and U.S. Nationals and was the top finisher on the AA/FA tour. Pure Heaven III ran a career best of 7.11/205. Then suddenly, Leon retired.

“I kind of felt that by the time you reached age 40 you were supposed to quit,” he reasoned. “I had a growing family and a good job with seniority working at Chrysler, so it seemed like a good time to hang up the old driving gloves. After that, Alan Miller drove for a couple of years. Then I sold the car but kept the drivetrain. Art McLaren had a brand-new altered, so we put my drivetrain in his altered and christened the car Pure Heaven IV. Art drove, and we ran that car from 1975 to 1979.”

For the next 20 years, Leon stayed busy with other projects, like building a highly lucrative sand rail component business known as Billet Pro. And, yes, there was a sand rail named Pure Heaven.

In the late 1990s, Leon was enticed back into the sport after the restoration of Pure Heaven II by Bob Nylander. On the home front, Leon’s daughter Cindy had married fuel altered racer Jeff Bennett. Then Jeff’s son Chris built the Pure Heaven Camaro Nostalgia Funny Car, which also ran an altered body. In 2013, Leon and Jack Eskelson built the current Pure Heaven V, which both Chris and Jeff co-drive. Current time on the new car has been 6.50/220.

Once an altered racer, always an altered racer!

Leon Fitzgerald and Pure Heaven II. The rat-motored altered was considered ahead of its time and was a hard charger.

Leon’s first “altered” was this M48 tank, which he trained in while stationed outside of Frankfurt, Germany.

While stationed in Germany, Fitzgerald bought this MG TF, which he and friend Virgil Jones drove all over Europe. Note the fully loaded luggage rack on the back.

After being discharged from the Army, Leon bought a brand-new ’55 Mercury Montclair, which he and lifelong friend Dick Jackson lowered, decked, shaved, and generally transformed into a state-of-the-art mid-’50s mild custom.

Fitzgerald’s next ride was this ’56 Ford-F-100 six-cylinder big-window. The truck didn’t stay stock for very long. With less than 1,000 miles on the odometer, he swapped the six for an Oldsmobile Rocket 88.

We do not have any pictures of Leon’s earliest race cars (the Oldsmobile-powered ’39 Chevy gasser and dragster), but the car that put him on the map was this Fitzgerald-Eskelson-built, all-steel, ’48 Fiat Topolino altered, which started life with an injected Chevy that was eventually supercharged. Best time on the Fiat was a 9.55/154.90.

The Reed, Rockman & Fitzgerald Pure Heaven was another Jack Eskelson creation. These two shots from Lions clearly show the car in a state of transition. Note the changing headers, front wheels, and radiator shell. Pure Heaven was the first car to fly the Anaheim Speed Engineers colors and ran in the high 7s at 168 mph.

Anaheim Speed Engineers was located on Manchester Boulevard. Opened in 1965, the company remained in business for five years and boasted the cars of Reed, Rockman & Fitzgerald, the Campos Brothers Lo Blow II, and Frank “Hawk” Harris’ gas dragster as “works cars.”

Opening day for Orange County Raceway, August 5, 1967: Leon carries the front wheels in Pure Heaven II on the newly minted track surface.

Leon boils the hides at the 1968 HOT ROD Magazine Championship Drags at Riverside International Raceway. Note the substitution of a dropped front axle, necessitated after Richard Rockman crashed the altered during a licensing run at OCIR. Also note the team’s 392 Hemi wagon tow vehicle in the background.

Here is a copy of the original press kit photo printed in 1968 by author McClurg while working as a sports photographer at the Anaheim Bulletin newspaper. These handouts were sent to Chicago’s Gold Agency for distribution to racetracks all over the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard, including Canada. Leon later commented, “We ran between 15 and 20 dates that first year.”

The concept of heaven versus hell has been debated by philosophers for eons. But the real-life heaven versus hell battle was waged at dragstrips all up and down the West Coast every time the team of Reed, Rockman & Fitzgerald raced Rich “Pure Hell” Guasco and driver Dale Emery in fuel altered eliminator competition.

In an attempt to test the Funny Car waters, Leon and R.T. swapped their nitro Chevy into the chassis of Lee Jones’ ’68 Pontiac Firebird Funny Car and ran some winter tests at OCIR. But claustrophobia set in once the body was lowered, and Leon said, “Pass!”

The pro-built Pure Heaven III AA/FA made its debut in 1969. This shot was taken while winning class at the 1971 NHRA Winternationals. That same year, Leon would also win Indy with PH III. Best time for the altered was 7.11/205.

Check out Leon’s Abe Lincoln impression while on tour, summer 1971.

Leon, Darlene, and the family pose with partner Art McLaren and Pure Heaven IV during driver introductions at the 1978 Fuel Altered Nationals, Tucson Dragway, Tucson, Arizona.

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The Best Diesel Generator Supplier in China

Do you plan to purchase diesel generator set from China? But don’t know which generator supplier is reliable? Also have no idea which brand generator is good quality and stable performance? If so, Jiangsu Starlight Electricity Equipments Co.,Ltd. will be your best choice.

Starlight Power is a professional manufacturer of diesel generator sets, founded in 1974, with 64 sales and service centers in China, providing technical consulting, free commissioning, maintenance and training services to customers. Starlight is also the largest OEM supporting manufacturer of Cummins diesel generators in China. Over the years, we have cooperated with Cummins, VOLVO, Perkins, Shangchai (SDEC), Ricardo, Deutz, Weichai, Weichai Baudouin (400KW to 3000KW heavy duty emergency diesel generators), Yuchai and other engine manufacturers to provide the highest quality generator sets to users, which has been well received by customers.

Starlight diesel generators have two major characteristics: one is for emergency use, the continuous working time is not long, generally only needs to run for a few hours (≤ 12H); the second is as a backup, the diesel generator is usually in a standby state, only when the main power supply is completely failed, the diesel generator will start to supply emergency power load. When the main power supply is restored to normal, it will switchoff immediately. When purchasing diesel generating sets, users should consider from the aspects of capacity, performance, and function selection of the control system.

Determination of capacity

The calibration capacity of Starlight diesel generator is 12h. The capacity should be able to meet the total calculated load of the emergency power, and it should be verified that the generator capacity can meet the requirement of starting a single maximum-capacity motor in the first-level load. Emergency generator generally uses three-phase AC synchronous generator with a nominal output voltage of 400V. When there are multiple generator sets in standby, generally only one diesel generator is set up. Considering reliability, two gensets can also be used in parallel to supply power.

Generally, the number of emergency generators should not exceed 3. When multiple units are selected, the units should try to use complete equipment with the same model, capacity, voltage regulation and speed control characteristics, and the fuel properties used should be the same for maintenance and common spare parts.

When there are two generator sets for emergency use, the self-starting device should enable the two units to be used as backup for each other, that is, after a delay in confirmation of power failure in the mains power supply, the self-starting command is issued. If the first unit fails to self-start for three consecutive times, an alarm signal shall be issued and the second diesel generator shall be started automatically.

Selection of performance

The emergency generator set should choose the diesel generator set with high speed, supercharging, low fuel consumption and the same capacity. High-speed turbocharged diesel engine has a large single-unit capacity and occupies a small space; The diesel engine is equipped with electronic or hydraulic speed-regulating device for better speed regulation performance; The generator should be equipped with a brushless excitation generator or a permanent magnet generator, which has reliable performance, low failure rate, and convenient maintenance.

Starlight provides Stamford, Leroy-Somer, CSIC Siemens, MARATHON, Engga, Shanghai KEPU, and Starlight and so on brushless AC generator.

When the motor capacity is large, it is advisable to choose the third-harmonic excitation generator; the unit is mounted on a common chassis with shock absorber; the exhaust pipe outlet should be designed for noise reduction to reduce the impact of noise on the surrounding environment.

Function selection of control system

The control system of the diesel generator should have a quick self-starting and automatic input device. When the main power fails, the emergency generator set should be able to quickly start and restore power supply. The allowable power-off time of the first-level load ranges from ten seconds to tens of seconds, which should be determined according to the specific situation. When the main power supply of an important project is cut off, a certain time of 3-5S should be passed to avoid the instantaneous voltage drop and the time when the city grid is closed or the standby power is automatically turned on, and then issue an instruction to start the emergency generator set.

It takes a period of time from the issue of the command, the start of the unit, the speed increase to the full load. Generally, large and medium-sized diesel engines also require pre-lubrication and warm-up process, so that the oil pressure, oil temperature, and cooling water temperature during emergency loading comply with the product technical requirements; the pre-lubrication and warm-up process can be carried out in advance according to different conditions. For example, military communications, important foreign affairs activities of large hotels, large-scale mass activities in public buildings at night, emergency surgical operations in hospitals, etc. should always be pre-lubricated and warmed up, so as to start quickly at any time and shorten the time of power failure as far as possible.

Starlight control system includes SMARTGEN and DEEP SEA.

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