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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1455
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 02:07 am: | 
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Any one have information on Watermota Marine Engines built in England by the Walter D. Fair Company around 1916 ??
Thanks in advance
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 621
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 05:14 pm: |
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Yup they look like Waterman copper tops.
They were made up into the 70's I think untill the factory burned. Mike Collin has a single cylinder. Last I know Watermota was still in business marinizing Ford diesels |
foxman
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| | Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 10:11 pm: |
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I'm not sure what the Walter D Fair company did early one pre WW1. It appears they built small inboards based on the Waterman. Their big thing so to speak was outboards. Walter Fair.s son Colin was an outboard enthusiast. In the early 1920's they built a rather bigger and heavier version of the 1915 ear Waterman. Colin Fair and Shingi Yano, a Japanese engineer working in England redesigned the one cylinder service outboard into a racing motor. This became a popular motor in the small outboard racing circuit in England. Yano was killed in an accident testing one of these motors. Production of all motors was very small, in the 30's according to Fair it was about 100 engines a year. I would suppose Walter D Fair was a very small custom workshop operation, very much in the British style. You can get all the information you need in D.W. Fostle's Speedboat book. Mr Fostle interviewed Colin Fair when he was in his nineties. |
DavidGHumphreys
Visitor
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 06:17 pm: |
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Yes I ahve a manual on the watermota 3HP and 6HP engines and an almost working example of the K2 twin |
captainbill
Member
Username: captainbill
Post Number: 4
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 02:33 pm: |
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foxman. My "Speedboat" book by D.W.Fostle has nothing about Walter Fair or his son Colin? Hey David, how can I get a copy of the Watermota manual for my 1918 3hp Watermota single? Bill |
foxman
Visitor
| | Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 07:31 pm: |
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sorry I goofed
I meant Power Boat by Kevin Desmond. Mr. Fair
was mentioned in the Chapter "Souping up the Waterbugs |
gronholmaki
Visitor
| | Posted on Friday, March 06, 2009 - 03:05 pm: |
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to DavidGHumphreys.
Waht do you want for one copy, off you manual 3HP_6HP, it seems to be i have Watermota k2 twin engine orginal instalet skaw26. |
chipper5927
Visitor
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 12:25 pm: |
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Can anybody help me find as much information as I can get on a 3 H.P. Watermota No. K1-3308 I own one and am looking at getting it up and running and would love pictures or a manual web site anything that would assist me
Thanks
Chip |
trevorb
Member
Username: trevorb
Post Number: 8
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 11:40 am: |
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Hi, I am working on restoring a Watermota K2 6HP. Does anyone have any photographs of the hot water out pipework for when such an engine is NOT fitted into a boat, but on a stationary engine mounting ? |
