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Doug Kimball
Advanced Member
Username: doug11k
Post Number: 50
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 05:51 pm: | 
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A friend sent these photos of a small Montgomery Wards 1 1/2 hp engine with friction drive clutch(forward & neutral only) that he said had powered a small boat. I'm thinking it might have powered a lobster pot hauler. He says it started on first pull & runs like a top after a few adjustments. He'd like to know the actual manufacturer & approximate date. I don't recognize it.
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Doug Kimball
Senior Member
Username: doug11k
Post Number: 51
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 06:02 pm: |
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I answered the question by doing a Google search of "Model RSC-591".
1945 Lauson |
Bruce Hall
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 179
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 - 09:42 pm: |
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Maybe a pot haul geared winch motor Doug? |
Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 853
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 08:01 am: |
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It wouild make a good power plant for a small skiff. Other than having kind of a high shaft centerline. There were several of these in the area that I grew up in powering 12 to 14ft flat bottom wooden skiffs. Also Lauson made a lot of thier engines in marine trim both air and water cooled. If you look in the pic it has a thrust bearing on the aft side of the rear bearing. This would not have been needed for a pot hauler. |
