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trials
New member
Username: trials
Post Number: 3
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 06:59 pm: | 
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Grandpa's first marine engine build |
trials
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Username: trials
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 07:13 pm: |
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mechman
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Username: mechman
Post Number: 24
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 - 08:30 pm: |
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Goodday I have been doing research on Canadian engines for over 40 years & the only reference I had found was at the Ontario archives that have two photos--Please let me know any history on the company & are any still existing? Larry Healey Campbellford,Ont. |
bgoss
Senior Member
Username: bgoss
Post Number: 171
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 09:02 am: |
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trials - great early Canadian manufacturing history. Please keep posting if you have more.
Very interested to know if you have ever seen any surviving engines.
Here is some of the limited information that I have dug up.
From the Toronto City Directories (Gas & Gasoline Engine Manufacturers):
1904 - No mention of Southam
1905 & 1906 - T.L. Southam, at 209 Queen E.
1907 - Directory missing
1908 - Southam Bros., foot of Morse St.
1909, 1912, 1913 & 1914 - Southam Bros., foot of Laing St.
1915 & 1916 - Directories missing
1917 - No mention of Southam
Southam Bros. advertised as being "Builders of Gasoline Engines for All Kinds of Motor Boats..."
Thanks again,
Blair
North of Toronto |
trials
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Username: trials
Post Number: 6
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Friday, December 30, 2011 - 09:41 pm: |
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My family originally lived on Toronto Island in the area that has long since been dredged out to form the 'Eastern Gap' they moved from there to 62 Laing Street (location of Alexander Muir' 'Maple Leaf Forever' tree)
Back in those days the waterfront started right at the foot of Laing Street where Eastern Avenue is now and could row a boat from the back yard down a small river that ended where the Beer store on Queen Street now sits.
They built Bicycles, Boats, Iceboats, Motors and market farm hunted (shorebirds and ducks) anything to survive during the hard times I guess.
Sadly I have only photographs and glass plate photos, notebooks and drawings. Apparently at one time my grandfather was also constructing a rotary combustion engine that featured very few moving parts, but again apparently all but lost to time.  |
trials
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Username: trials
Post Number: 10
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 05:21 pm: |
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T.L.Southam twin cylinder 2 stroke |
jziegler_2
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Username: jziegler_2
Post Number: 4
Registered: 11-2011
| | Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 05:42 pm: |
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You've got to love that big wheel bicycle leaning against the front window of the building.. |
larry_from_maryland
Senior Member
Username: larry_from_maryland
Post Number: 472
Registered: 07-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 06:56 pm: |
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It looks like that big wheel with a smaller bike inside would be unrideable. |
trials
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Username: trials
Post Number: 12
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Saturday, December 31, 2011 - 07:08 pm: |
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The mono wheel was successfully ridden by a circus entertainer during one of the Canadian National Exhibitions, I should be able to find a photo of that some day, with some serious digging.
Here is one of the same shop, different product to suit the times:
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