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jed_clamp
Member
Username: jed_clamp
Post Number: 11
Registered: 09-2010
| | Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2016 - 09:45 pm: | 
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Looking over a list of race boats on the Hudson River in 1904 got me wondering what the engines looked like. Engines such as Panard, Craig, Fiat and Gas engine power co engine. The boat "hard boiled egg" is said to have a Mors engine, not a Fairbanks morse? Anybody have photos? |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3785
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 06:59 am: |
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http://library.mysticseaport.org/msca/enginedetail.cfm?accession=1953.3072.1
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bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 553
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 07:12 am: |
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Awesome Richard!! Thanks for inquiring Jed Clamp!! |
jed_clamp
Member
Username: jed_clamp
Post Number: 12
Registered: 09-2010
| | Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 09:20 am: |
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Thanks. It's ses in the notes it was taken out of the boat in 1994, to conserve the boat. No boat name. Wonder what happened. |
bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 554
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, April 24, 2016 - 10:36 pm: |
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Jed. You may have already found the U-Tube video by typing Hudson River Race-1904 in Google showing these great old boats competing.. |
billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 646
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 25, 2016 - 12:01 am: |
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1902 Mors.
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jed_clamp
Member
Username: jed_clamp
Post Number: 13
Registered: 09-2010
| | Posted on Monday, April 25, 2016 - 08:39 pm: |
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Nice photo. Gas engine power company is a hard name to search here, or any where else on the web.. I know the Rudder and other such magazines of the times covered these boats. But I've never been able to dig any up from the early days. Not that I'm even a speed guy, I just like the cutting edge of the day. The very early race boat engines are kind of a blind spot on the web. Bruce, I have seen that video. Very cool. |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3786
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 07:22 am: |
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Gas Engine & Power Co. and Chas L. Seabury Co. were consolidated by 1900.
This 1904 ad is their first gas engine and trade name is "Speedway"
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