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The town was a sleepy German farm community when Horace and John Dodge built a plant to supply Ford with axles, transmissions, steering gears and crankcases.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hot oil from airplane crankcases is usually forced into air-bathed tubes for cooling.

From Time Magazine Archive

The waste, which runs to 1.1 billion gallons, is the glop that is drained from industrial machinery, buses, trucks and the crankcases of cars at every oil change.

From Time Magazine Archive

Motorists have the stuff poured into the crankcases of their cars, separate from the oil itself.

From Time Magazine Archive

The use of aluminum was not entirely novel at this time, as it had been utilized in many automobile engine parts, particularly crankcases; but its incorporation in this rather uncommon combination represented a bold step.

From The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design by Hobbs, Leonard S.