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searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 631
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - 11:36 pm: | 
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In perusing old boating magazines, I occasionally note engines that bear unfamiliar names. Eventually, I started keeping a list of such engines and here are the first fourteen from that list. All of the engines on the list were mentioned in a marine context. Some of these may be auto engines converted to marine use. Some are single cylinder engines according to a seller, a reporter, or the author of an article. Some may be of foreign manufacture (Mora, Lindveit, for instance?). Are any of these engines from Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont?
Palmer-Singer
Eastern Standard Engine
Kensington
Flanders
Mora
Lindveit
Rochet Schneider
Fall River
R.C.H.
Burgess
Ackers
Lindell
Ferman
Adams Frazier |
Eric Schulz
Senior Member
Username: eric_schulz
Post Number: 94
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 07:06 am: |
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Several of these names are car manufacturers. If they made marine engines I do not know.
Makes I know for certain as auto brands are Flanders, Mora, Palmer-Singer, R.C.H. and Rochet-Schneider.
Eric |
searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 632
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 11:21 am: |
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Eric,
Thanks for the response.
The fourteen engines on the list I posted here were whittled down from the first twenty five on the master list. I was able to eliminate eleven through research in the two volumes of the BYB, Old Marine Engines, and American Marine Engines. Now, with your input, I can eliminate another five.
I do not have a reference to use for eliminating early automobiles. Can you suggest one? |
RichardDurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3587
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 11:40 am: |
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Ackers and Adam Frazier are the only North American marine engines on the list !
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RichardDurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3588
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 12:00 pm: |
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Frazer Adams
No photo of an Acker Engine, they were mfgd by Bayonne Launch Company, New Jersey 1912
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Harry Nicholson
New member
Username: harryn
Post Number: 2
Registered: 06-2015
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 01:24 am: |
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I wonder if the given bizarre bore is correct (3 1/6") in this ad from March 1923.
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 2101
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 07:06 am: |
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Old engine mfrs often used odd bore sizes so the customer had to purchase rings from them. |
Eric Schulz
Senior Member
Username: eric_schulz
Post Number: 96
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 27, 2015 - 02:37 am: |
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Searcher, this is a late reply, but if you haven't found a car reference book, I would suggest Complete Encyclopedia of Motor Cars by GN Georgano. You could borrow it from a library, buy a new copy or a used one from abebooks.com.
Harry, Henry Ford didn't think 3-1/16" bore size bizarre, as he built thousands of V8s with just that size.
Eric |
searcher
Senior Member
Username: searcher
Post Number: 633
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 27, 2015 - 09:21 pm: |
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Eric, thanks for the car reference. I hadn't yet pursued any research on car books as my wife requested my involvement in one of her projects. So, you helped me again. My wife wanted us to participate in a professional archaeology dig this past week. The dig is on the site of a 1600's tavern/garrison house in southern Maine. Her direct ancestor was living within a mile of the tavern in 1690 so he likely was a familiar face in that tavern. She puts up with my old iron so the least I could do was dig small, precisely laid out, square holes in the ground along with her to look for very, very old iron. |
