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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3238
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 08:52 am: | 
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I believe this is the first photo image of this engine we've seen !
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miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 745
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2014 - 07:10 pm: |
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It looks like they took the ideas of then contemporary small marine engine outfits, e.g. the en bloc headless engine casting, a well made magneto to get away from batteries and a vibrator coil, using an oil/gas mix ( no oilers), a horizontally split crankcase, and a closed-in FNR gearbox, and tried to launch (pun intended) a successful enterprise.
I suspect that their distribution network was already committed to other makes e.g. Gray, and they probably struggled.
Couple that with the effects of the Great War , and I reckon that they did not get too far.
In 1917 for example, the German Bosch company was forced to sell its operation by the American government to American interests and they probably were not able to get magnetos for small engines since almost all production went to the was effort.
But in any event, Richard, you're spot on - it would be great to see if there is at least one relic out there somewhere. If I had to guess, I'd think about the Michigan and the upper mid-west states as places where one might be found.
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