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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1408
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 06:22 pm: | 
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28 # Whats The Name of this 1924 Marine engine ?
This great hands on pioneer engine designer and developer strived for superoir quality, power and speed from these fine engines !
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andrew
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Username: andrew
Post Number: 833
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 - 07:56 pm: |
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Joseph Van Blerck (I think)
He was quite a pioneer.
I wonder if the GEM article by Max Homfeld is in their online archives now? September 1993. |
richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1409
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 03:23 pm: |
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28 # Whats The Name 1924 ?
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1410
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 01:02 pm: |
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GEM article Joseph Van Blerck
http://www.gasenginemagazine.com/complete-archive/3991/ |
stan grayson
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| | Posted on Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 03:14 pm: |
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This is a Model N Van Blerck from the mid-'20s when Van Blerck had a factory in Plainfield, New Jersey. It is a side-valve engine and, while certainly competitive with others of the general type, is of entirely different concept than the lavish T-head models built earlier by the Van Blerck Motor Company in Michigan. This model has nothing to do with later Continentals marinized by Van Blerck.
Watch for a Van Blerck article later this year to appear in WoodenBoat magazine. |
andrew
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Username: andrew
Post Number: 835
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 03, 2007 - 04:42 pm: |
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Stan,
Thanks.
Have you done a search of this board for Van Blerck? Use the search link at the top of this page. There were pictures of an interesting Van Blerck from England posted a while ago.
We will watch for your article in WoodenBoat. Let us know which issue it will appear in.
We would enjoy hearing from you more often. You should register here on the board and you can choose to have new postings from certain categories emailed to you.
For those of you who don't know, Stan wrote the book
Old Marine Engines
as well as
Engines Afloat I and II |
richardday
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Username: richardday
Post Number: 462
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 04, 2007 - 02:15 pm: |
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And Stan did an outstanding job on all those volumes. |
