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Bill
| | Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 10:04 pm: | 
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Fairbanks engine on Ebay #2580257878.
I know nothing about the engine or owner.
Bill |
Ernie
| | Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 08:29 am: |
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Wow another Detroit Auto Marine with a different tag on it. |
Ernie
| | Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 07:49 pm: |
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Here are the pics from eBay.
I have the info from the tag however is is on my work e-mail. I will post it tomorrow. It is a Fairbanks. NOT a Fairbanks Morse. No I did NOT buy it.
Enjoy
Ernie
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Ernie
| | Posted on Monday, December 15, 2003 - 07:54 pm: |
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My reason for commenting on it NOT being a Fairbanks Morse is the people I mentioned it to all said "oh a Fairbanks Morse" |
Ernie
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 07:47 am: |
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Here is the tag info:
Fairbanks Marine Engine
The Fairbanks Co.
Albany, N.Y Hartford, Conn. Syracuse,NY
Baltimore, Md. New Orleans, La. London, Engl
Bangor, Me. New York, NY Glasgow, Sc
Boston, Mass. Philadelphia, Pa. Hamburg, Ge
Buffalo,NY Pittsburg, Pa. Paris, France
No. 12236 ---Patented-- H.P.
The above number 12236 is also stamped on the outside of the flywheel's vertical rim |
Richard Day
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 12:40 pm: |
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I have a turn of the century Fairbanks catalog. They were a big one if not the biggest industrial wholesalers in the country. They sold everything from flat belts to locomotives. The bound volume is about 3-4" thick. They marketed my Victor make and break marine engine about 1910 and of course the Bates and Edmunds famous Bull Dog line of stationary engines. |
Ernie
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - 03:04 pm: |
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I would say the world. Look at the tag info above. I just did and there is Germany, France, England and Scotland. Yup I would agree "a big company" |
whifco
New member
Username: whifco
Post Number: 3
Registered: 05-2014
| | Posted on Sunday, June 08, 2014 - 11:26 am: |
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My Dad worked for the Fairbanks Morse Co. for 30 years ending in 1948. He was what they called a scale trouble shooter. He traveled all over New England by steam train. Repaired scales that weighed trucks and railroad cars in the paper mills. Fairbanks was quite a company then. |
ratrodz
New member
Username: ratrodz
Post Number: 2
Registered: 01-2018
| | Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2019 - 12:04 pm: |
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Anyone know who owns the Fairbanks Marine engine shown by Ernie above? Contact Bob Huff, [email protected] |
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