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Superior Gas Engine Company

Superior employed more than 1,800 men and women during World War II. They received a Victory Fleet FLag and the Maritime Commission “M’ awards for their record of building diesel engines for U.S. Liberty ships. They also built engines for Naval LST landing-craft vessels. They also built engines for lend-lease to other Allied Nations.

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Shop services were in high demand due to the booming Lima, Indiana oil field, so in 1889, Patrick J. (P.J.) Souvlin opened a shop in Springfield, Ohio, Superior Gas Engine Company. It originally began as a repair facility but soon came to develop an internal combustion engine that could use well-head gas as fuel.

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