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walter chute
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| | Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 11:11 pm: | 
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Motor made in Buffalo N.Y. any info will be appreciated all I found was a snow sled with a 4 cylinder ad said they made valveless two-stroke gasoline engines, marine motors and eletric lighting plants. |
bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 565
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 10:02 am: |
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Hi Walt, I have a couple of them. one is actually all nichol plated and was salvaged from Keuka lake. One is badged Nichols and Wright and the other is just Wright with Buffalo as the city. One has Valveless script on the Flywheel face. try the Buffalo city directory from around 1905 or so. These may have been built in the Black Rock neighborhood. What do you have on the Valentine Marine engine Co.?? |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3788
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 01:15 pm: |
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Wright Motor Works 1904 earliest reference
Wright Motor Company by 1909
Nichols & Wright Motor Company by 1911 last
info 1915
1904-1915 same address 48 South Division Street Buffalo
Ad 1912
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bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 566
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 08:11 pm: |
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thanks for the ad Richard- had not seen this before. Nickel plated at the factory!! awesome!! |
walter_chute
New member
Username: walter_chute
Post Number: 1
Registered: 05-2016
| | Posted on Friday, May 20, 2016 - 01:28 am: |
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Thank you Bruce and Richard My motor is missing ID tag a 2 cylinder with some nickel on cylinders. Turns over and I was told it last ran 5 years ago at Alexander N.Y. show. |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3886
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2016 - 02:07 pm: |
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Sled, about 1909
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bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 585
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2016 - 03:15 pm: |
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Great stuff Richard!! Love the three ski bobs and the long fancy horn as if the horn would be louder than the engine... LOL!!!!!! |
rbprice
Senior Member
Username: rbprice
Post Number: 557
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2016 - 05:12 pm: |
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And absolutely no guards around the propeller! Those were the good old days! And not very long after the Wright Bros. first flew the Flyer so they jumped right on the engine technology. |
johnoxley
Senior Member
Username: johnoxley
Post Number: 162
Registered: 04-2010
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2016 - 06:00 pm: |
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Aircraft thinking - no guards there, and people do walk into the spinning prop. |
