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William Schaller
Senior Member Username: billschaller
Post Number: 424 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 09:13 pm: |
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Here is a twin that came from Northern Minnesota. Anyone know who made it?
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William Schaller
Senior Member Username: billschaller
Post Number: 425 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 09:16 pm: |
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Here is a photo from my files of someone elses motor, I have no idea where I got the photo from.
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William Schaller
Senior Member Username: billschaller
Post Number: 426 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 09:19 pm: |
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Here is the other side.
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audie
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| Posted on Sunday, May 22, 2011 - 11:19 pm: |
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Bill, That is a Lockwood-Ash 8 h.p. I have one going in my new "old" bateau being built now. They were also tagged Motorgo for Sears and later the Lockwood Ash was bought out and built here in Louisiana and it was tagged Nadler. I also have a 4 h.p. Nadler. If that one is for sale let me know please. |
J.B. Castagnos
Senior Member Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 594 Registered: 07-2002
| Posted on Monday, May 23, 2011 - 09:41 pm: |
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Looks like a Nadler. Nadler repaired and manufactured parts for the L-A engines, there was a strong market for them around here when they went out of production. Nadler purchased the patterns and rights and started making the whole engine under the Nadler name. The M foundry mark was from cylinders cast in Texas. Nadler had a lot of trouble casting the twins, they had the Texas foundry do them, finally did their own, from what I'm told they had about a three in ten success rate. The second engine appears to be a L-A with a Nadler cylinder. The hex water pump caps, hex primer cups and brass timer gears were L-A, the M foundry mark is early Nadler. |
Jim Parrott
Member Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 13 Registered: 06-2009
| Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 11:19 am: |
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JB The green engine belongs to me. I guess we will have to pull it apart to determine if it is Nadler, Lockwood Ash, or a combo. Jim |
William Schaller
Senior Member Username: billschaller
Post Number: 427 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 05:12 am: |
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I do happen to have this chunk o'brass that might be just he thing to put on my twin.
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Jim Parrott
Member Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 14 Registered: 06-2009
| Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 09:34 am: |
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Bill, That timer cover is a perfect match for your engine. Nice find on both. Jim |
J.B. Castagnos
Senior Member Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 595 Registered: 07-2002
| Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 11:24 pm: |
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I asked Nadler where they got the timer covers, he said "I don't know, Texaco supplied them". |