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dick_briggs
Advanced Member
Username: dick_briggs
Post Number: 47
Registered: 02-2015
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2022 - 08:11 am: | 
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Here are a few images of a Norfolk Motor engine. The flywheel reads:
NORFOLK MOTOR
BUILT BY
POOLE & PRICE MACH. CO.
BOSTON
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bruce_g
Advanced Member
Username: bruce_g
Post Number: 34
Registered: 12-2009
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2022 - 12:47 pm: |
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That Norfolk is a beauty. Do you know approximately what years they were made. Bruce |
dick_briggs
Advanced Member
Username: dick_briggs
Post Number: 49
Registered: 02-2015
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2022 - 01:58 pm: |
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Richard Durgee gives an approximate date of 1905-1906. It is small - the flywheel is 2"x10".
There is some more information about another Norfolk here:
Norfolk |
bruce_g
Advanced Member
Username: bruce_g
Post Number: 35
Registered: 12-2009
| | Posted on Monday, January 24, 2022 - 08:26 pm: |
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Thank you Bruce |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 4183
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2022 - 05:18 am: |
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A look into Poole & Price Machine Co. I find several listings in gas marine engine mfgrs lists in 1906.
Also find Listings under Norfolk marine motors in Wollaston,mass in lists as well.
This article in 1907 For'N'Aft boating magazine.
seems they made 3 engine sizes and an opposed double !
A few more old marine engines yet to be discovered !
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 4184
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2022 - 05:36 am: |
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Found poole & price machine company listed in 1891 as a machining Co. in massachusetts but earliest tie so far with marine motors is 1906 ??
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dick_briggs
Advanced Member
Username: dick_briggs
Post Number: 50
Registered: 02-2015
| | Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2022 - 05:05 am: |
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More good information. Thanks Richard. |
psnow
Member
Username: psnow
Post Number: 6
Registered: 09-2012
| | Posted on Sunday, August 13, 2023 - 09:08 am: |
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Wow. Now I know what was ground off the flywheel of the one I have Only Norfolk Motor Boston |
dick_briggs
Senior Member
Username: dick_briggs
Post Number: 69
Registered: 02-2015
| | Posted on Sunday, August 13, 2023 - 06:12 pm: |
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Do you have any pictures of your engine? |
