77 Dudley Parker urged Joe Hertrich and his team to develop a new device that would offer what Parker called “sex appeal” for the market, and the group responded with a fluid-drive centrifugal. The new machine was tested in a New York refinery, using intermittent washing with syrup and superheated water, which boosted capacity and improved control. Alas, sales and production of the new device would have to wait for the war’s end. above left: High Speed Centrifugal Driven by a Torque Controlled Fluid Clutch Motor. March 5, 1943 above: Coming to the Western States Machine Company, Dudley R. Parker was a thoroughly trained sugar man with ten plus years of industry experience. He had a long record of successful manufacturing of sugar machinery. While at Western States, Parker occupied the office of secretary and treasurer, general office manager, and later president for Western States. - Centrifugal Service, March, 1920.