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bud_tierney
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Username: bud_tierney
Post Number: 67
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2017 - 03:29 pm: | 
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Trade Journals 1903 and 04 mentioned a new 4 Cyl vertical from W Hoffman Mtr Wks, Chicago (aka Hoffman Mtr Wks) a builder of Motorcycles, exhibited by Alexander & Crouch...
Desc as 16HP, 4x5, water cooled; might be 2 cycle as their 2Cyl was 2 cycle...and as suitable for 1500-2500 lb car or a light launch...
The Mtr Wks was listed under gasoline auto and marine engine, as well as motorcycles, in trade pub buyers guides...
Some Googling doesn't bring up much, but there is a 1922 newspaper ad in which someone wants to trade one for a saxaphone..
Does the 4Cyl appear in any of the marine engine history books??
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3997
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 07, 2017 - 09:43 pm: |
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Bud, This is what I have !
Hoffman W. Launch & Motor Works
Illinois, Chicago 1251 in 1906 / 1253 North Halstead Street in 1907.
4 cycle 1 1/2 to 16 hp 1903.
IMC 1908-09, pg 157, Automobile trade journal, Volume 10 Jan1,1906 pg 552*.
Also made motorcycle & gasoline marine engines also sold castings 1908,
Taken over by The Anderson Boat & Engine Co. in 1904 ?
Listed Canis 1910 Index.
1903 engine had chain drive Water pump rear.
Boating 1907 Jan, pg 58, Fore N Aft June 1906 photo single ad pg 82 disc*.
1907 ad
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billschaller
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Username: billschaller
Post Number: 687
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 09, 2017 - 12:33 am: |
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1907 Hoffman
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3998
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 09, 2017 - 01:02 pm: |
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Looking for marine engine photos !
1906
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