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bgoss
Senior Member
Username: bgoss
Post Number: 195
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, March 16, 2013 - 12:52 pm: | 
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I haven't been able to find out anything about this company. The tag reads "312 Ontario St., Buffalo, NY".
Brass packing nuts on the crank at each end of the crankcase. It looks to have been converted from rotary ignition behind the flywheel to chain drive mag (skip link) many years ago.
Do you know of any other engines by this company? Is there any literature out there suggesting what years these were made?
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2992
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 17, 2013 - 04:39 pm: |
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This is a day maker, an old marine engine with a name tag that I have'nt seen Before !
I beleive that its named after the township of
Black Rock,New York that at the end of the 1800's was adjacent to the west side of Buffalo on the Niagra River, an industrial area later incorporated into the north western area of the city of Buffalo. Adjacent to the north is Riverside and few miles north is Tonawanda where Chevrolet built it's main engine plant in the early thirties !
The Black Rock engine posted above seems to share the Gene pool with other engs from the same
western new york area.
McGarigle
Maus
I will have to search abit for another eng that I have seen that should be posted here as well ?
Buffalo was a great old engine mfgring area and I believe still holds a lot of undiscovered history ?
Very cool find and I appreciate your posting it so that old marine Engine research takes a step foreward into the past !
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bgoss
Senior Member
Username: bgoss
Post Number: 196
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 - 07:25 pm: |
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Thanks Richard. Definitely some similarities. It does look like the McGarigle and Maus have the same (or similar) Lobee pump shown in my other recent thread. Looking forward to see what else you come up with.
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