What is "diesel generators"

Usage examples of "diesel generators".

Hewson, a dark-eyed taciturn character, a tractor driver and engineer who had been responsible for the diesel generators.

I'd gone about twenty yards and passed the first trench-opening, my mind full of what might have gone wrong with the diesel generators, when I heard the soft crunch of footsteps.

Sanjong didn't know what was in those cartons, but he was sure they weren't diesel generators.

We bought diesel generators sufficient to electrify about a quarter of the island, and wiring and lights enough for all the regularly traveled tunnels.

For the next few months they had to soldier along on the old diesel generators, though.

Informs Mitchell that the runway lights are not functioning because a fuel tanker crashed into the power lines and the backup diesel generators failed from a mechanical malfunction.

Informs Mitchell that the runway lights are notfunctioning because a fuel tanker crashed into the power lines and thebackup diesel generators failed from a mechanical malfunction.

North of the tents, a gray awning sheltered five large diesel generators that coughed smoke into the afternoon sky.

Her pile was dead, and her only source of power was her diesel generators.

But I couldn't do anything about it until I had some kind of noise background and all I could hear was the low-pitched sound of the diesel generators and that wasn't enough: the human voice range would cut right across it.

In such circumstances all that could be done was to start up the emergency diesel generators, to supply electric power to the Ehrenhaft generators.