My Father was a field engineer for GM Truck and Coach for over 30 years before retiring in 1969. During WWII, he was on loan to the War Department in the South Pacific helping the Navy maintain the then new, high tech 2 cycle GMC engines that the Navy was buying by the tens of thousands but was inadequately trained to maintain.
Among other applications, sets of 4, 471 engines were geared together to power certain landing craft. Engines could be individually clutched/declutched to allow propulsion from whatever engines were operational.
Each engine had one or two oil bath air cleaners. Occasionally, sea water or simply condensation in the air cleaner oil cups would raise the oil level enough in the inadequately maintained air cleaners that the engine would pull oil from the oil cup into the blower inlet and run away.
I remember him telling me of a time when one such engine ran away after start-up. Of course, the engine was not clutched at start up so there was no load. The engine room crew fled the scene expecting the engine to explode. Dad went below and shut it off by choking off the air intake.
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