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richarddurgee
| | Posted on Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 11:47 am: | 
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Looking for any information on this engine maker.
This is a 1903 ad, by the Stamford Motor Company,
successor to Stamford Foundry Company.
Trade name Sneckner, Shipmate ??
Any one ever seen one of these engines. Thanks
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Ernie
| | Posted on Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 06:48 pm: |
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congrats it looks like you found out what it is.
Ernie |
richarddurgee
| | Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 09:46 am: |
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Will try to bring up an earlier link from this site of an unknown engine???
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richarddurgee
| | Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 09:51 am: |
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richarddurgee
| | Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 12:05 pm: |
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IF ???? The unknown above is a Sneckner, it would be an earlier engine, with lower base mount
and other differences! Certainly a lot of history to be rediscovered around the very old marine engines,and how scarce the written information is to try and track down and put a name and date on so many unknowns. |
Richard Day
| | Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 09:27 pm: |
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It seems to me the shift to mounting the engine at the shaft line began in ernest about 1900 from articles I have read on the subject. This suggests the engine is probably not much youger than 1900. |
Ernie
| | Posted on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 09:28 am: |
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I would agree on it's age. The size of the engine physically is about 3 to 4 hp. However the port size on this engine is tiny. I would put it at around 1.5 hp. It took me over an hour to clean out the mouse nests with needle nose pliers and a shop vac. |
teresa zundel
Visitor
| | Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 09:49 pm: |
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this engine was built by my great grand father frank sneckner |
MICHELE VILCEK
Visitor
| | Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 10:32 am: |
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FRANK SNECKNER WAS ALSO MY GREAT GRANDFATHER |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1427
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 07:03 pm: |
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Stamford Motor Company 1905
Manufacturer of
Sneckner Gasoline Engines
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 594
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 02:47 pm: |
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Richard,
Why don't you contact the Stamford, CT historical society? See if you can get a street address. I have maps of CT in good resolution from 1934. However the Stamford waterfront from then to now Google Earth have really changed. With a street address we can most likely pin down an aerial pic from the 1934 photos.
I will e-mail you the link for 1934. I don't have it on this PC. |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 1429
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 03:23 pm: |
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Ernie
Stamford was on Foundry Street untill they moved in 1905 ca to West Waterside ??
In the article above says the new machine shop and offices were situated on the East side of Stamford Harbor ? Two locations !
I enjoyed your Google Earth work on the old Palmer Plant, a step back in time - Thanks |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 596
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 06:59 pm: |
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Richard,
Thanks and Ok. I will see what I can do with Standard |
billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 547
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 10:17 pm: |
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postcard
Stamford Motor Company
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1575
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 26, 2012 - 12:51 pm: |
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Bill can you send me this in hi res?
Thanks
Ernie |
billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 548
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 07:41 am: |
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Sorry Ernie,
it was a postcard on ebay that is gone now. |
richardday
Senior Member
Username: richardday
Post Number: 1027
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 10:37 am: |
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Richard, I grew up knowing those "lower base" engines as "WINE BOTTLE" engines from their characteristic shape from the era of steam driven factories where small vertical steam engines were moved around plants to meet needed services not conveniently available from the line shafts which drove most of the machinery. |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1576
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 03:37 pm: |
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Bill that is ok as I have a biger monitor at home and could see the detail on the bridge behind all of the boats so I could figure out which bridge it is/was.. I have now figured out where the pics were taken. I will post some Google Earth pics with added detail in the next day or so.
Ernie |
ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1577
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 08:53 pm: |
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Labels indicate pics in the thread above
Arrows indicate approximate direction of view in the pics
Pic of Pulaski Street Bridge which is in the background of the second pic.
Note West Waterside isn't a street is is a part of Stamford.
You can see I 95 in the top of the pic to give a reference to where you are looking.
Pic thanks to Google Earth
The river is the Mill or Rippowam
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2920
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2012 - 09:57 am: |
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Dick, "Wine Bottle" shaped old marine engines what a story ! The very first marine engines, their heydays from 1890's to about 1904-05, several engines were mfgd for a few yrs later but the design was earlier ! when I first started my data base I struggled for a descriptive name and called them "Bottom Base",
but Lower base, Pedestal base are common names !
What classics they are ! one look and you know that your seeing well over 100 yrs and a special era of marine industrial history !
The engine posted at the top of this post (ten years Ago) is still in my "Unknown" list, after many yrs of searching its ___not a Sneckner__,
it may be a Central City Iron Works,Stevens Point Wisconsin ? There is scarce info on the early engs mfgrs, advertising was rarely a part of their vocabulary or pocketbooks, and photo ads rarer than the engines themselves !
Any information would be welcomed !
Photos of engine
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Bill & Ernie, your posts are appreciated,
Cool Stuff !
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