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rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 351
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, September 03, 2011 - 08:59 pm: | 
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Attached are some files pertaining to the Mathews Boat Company and the Lozier Engine Company which once had a close relationship. Some folks in Port Clinton, OH have a 1902 Mathews boat in a small marine museum and the would like to find a Lozier engine, of the appropriate age, to put in the boat.
Apparently, the two companies had close ties even after Lozier left Toledo and moved to Platsburgh, NY on Lake Champlain.
Would anyone know of a suitable Lozier engine that could be either donated or sold to the museum to help them complete the display?
The engine in the ad is quite small but maybe one of you guys will recognize it.
Thanks
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1430
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2011 - 06:48 pm: |
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Here are some copies from the Rudder Mag 75th anniversary issue in 1965.
Engine is a Fay and Boswen and not lozier though
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bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 281
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, September 04, 2011 - 10:01 pm: |
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Great call Ernie-Very interesting info |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1431
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 05, 2011 - 03:38 pm: |
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Here is the rest of the article
Sorry for the omission
Ernie
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rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 352
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 05, 2011 - 04:04 pm: |
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AH HA - that is some very interesting info Ernie: Thanks.
Does anyone have a 1902/5 Fay & Bowen catalog that may show an engine like the one in the Mathews ad? Notice the the width of the flywheel seems to be much wider than most single cylinder engines of that period. |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1432
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 05, 2011 - 05:14 pm: |
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And finally the last last page
The F and B isn't the original engine I am told
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1433
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 05, 2011 - 05:32 pm: |
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bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 282
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Monday, September 05, 2011 - 09:13 pm: |
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BOB, Keith's Fay Bowen engine is a pre 1904 Auburn NY built F&B. Search for Fay & Bowen in the search function to locate a photo. Keith Brayer's spectacular engine modeling talent displayed in his recent OME thread might possibly be comissioned to produce a life like replica for static display in the Matthews launch?? |
dijo
Member
Username: dijo
Post Number: 12
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2011 - 08:33 am: |
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The attached picture shows what is thought to be a 1903 Lozier Launch. I would appreciate corroborating info.. |
bartropr
Advanced Member
Username: bartropr
Post Number: 45
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2011 - 08:39 am: |
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I recently picked up a Lozier "Marine Gas Engine" handbook (23 pages) with an 'Art Nouveau' cover in very good condition here in the UK at a boat jumble -the only clue to help date it is that it is described as "book 10". The engines it covers are single cylinder 1.5, 3,5 and 7.5hp, and double cylinder 10 and 15 hp |
rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 353
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2011 - 10:12 am: |
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Hello Bartropr - that is fantastic! If I were to beg, grovel and promise you my first born son, would you be willing to mail me that so I could reproduce it? I have a reputation for making really great reproductions and returning the original.
If you send me your email address I will send along some photos of a single cylinder Lozier that is in the engine collection @ Mystic, CT so you can make a comparison to the engines in your catalog.
Bob Price [email protected] |
rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 354
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2011 - 10:17 am: |
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Hello Dijo - if you could email me a copy of your photo I will send it along to one of the guys in Ohio who might be able to identify it.
Bob Price [email protected] |
bartropr
Advanced Member
Username: bartropr
Post Number: 46
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 06, 2011 - 03:39 pm: |
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Hi Bob,
I will scan a couple of the pages to give you a better idea of what's in it and I will certainly seriously consider your request. The illustrations are very similar to one on the Old Marine Engine site :
New Find - Lozier single cylinder
I am restoring an 18' Truscott launch said to be 1898 - 1900.Do you have any catalogues for these?
Richard Bartrop |
LOZIER ENGINE HISTORY
