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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2223
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 03:08 pm: | 
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West Coast- What's The Name of this 1925 "Real Light Heavy Duty Engine" ?
 
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douglas
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Username: douglas
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 11:56 pm: |
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Tacoma-built "Western" maybe? |
richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2225
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 02:29 pm: |
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What's The Name of this 1925 "Real Light Heavy Duty Engine" ?
Douglas, The ad says uses a western built reverse Gear ?
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2226
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 02:35 pm: |
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Here's a 1925 Western-Wright,hard to compare with opposite sides ? Acme made a similar looking engine and one model of Buffalo looked very similar too ??
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2227
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 02:58 pm: |
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1925 Acme
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2228
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 03:48 pm: |
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Just noticed that McLaughlin and Acme were only a few doors apart on Western Ave, Seattlle in 1925 ! |
douglas
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Username: douglas
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 11:06 pm: |
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I was a bit confused--an article in National Fisherman many years ago featured the Wright shop in Tacoma, whose proprietor had inherited the name and had a few of the old engines in his collection, and I believe gave a bit of history--wish I could remember the article's date! Doug |
douglas
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Username: douglas
Post Number: 3
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 11:13 pm: |
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Richard, didn't know about Western gears, but Seattle shops made all kinds of stuff for the smaller fish boats--Kolstrand comes to mind. Of course, the biggie was Washington Iron Works, which made the famous Washington (or Washington-Estep) diesels as well as heavy logging equipment. The larger WIW diesels had factory gears, the little ones used Joe's gears (Petrelli & Snow, I think). |
