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searcher
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Username: searcher
Post Number: 419
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 12:13 pm: | 
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This is the first reference to the Troyer Fox engine I have seen. I also wonder what the engine is on the forward deck. Looks like a marine engine converted to stationary use?
December 1910
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2359
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 12:52 pm: |
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Trial trip of 'Nora,' of Stella, Washington. This boat belongs to Struckmier & Horton, and is used for towing big rafts and scows. She is equipped with a 75 h. p. Troyer-Fox engine, and runs night and day, towing large rafts a distance of 80 miles and over. As her trial trip was taken on Sunday, the accompanying picture shows her with most of the population of the town of 'Stella' aboard.
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2360
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 01:10 pm: |
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Troyer-fox of Astoria Oregon and Seattle washington was a very successful Fish Co., in the early teens they mfged some of the first fish canning machinery for mass production as well as the Marine engines that were actually made by the "Astoria Iron Works ".
Another early Pioneering Co. that would warrant looking into their history !
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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2361
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010 - 01:42 pm: |
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miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 442
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 10:05 am: |
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Interesting to see the fuels listed. The compression ratio couldn't have been more than 4 or 5:1.
In that era, I suspect there was no standard for the composition of any one of the four fuel types.
Ironically, there is no real way to discern what they might have been since any sample would have changed to tar long ago.
Even today, some folks in the "North" find they get vapor lock when they use winter gasoline in the summer or late spring when you get a really warm day. That implies the volatility of the winter gasoline is quite different than what we buy at the pumps in the summer time.
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douglas
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Username: douglas
Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 02:34 am: |
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Small vertical engine on foredeck operated winch used in brailing salmon traps. Later setups took power from engine flywheel via clutch and shafting through hold to winch friction. Clutch was engaged via handwheel near winch. Miro's right--compression was low. Seaton gives good info about composition of period fuels. |
douglas
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Username: douglas
Post Number: 9
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, April 10, 2010 - 03:22 am: |
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Period fuel was recreated by Exxon Mobil for evaluation of 1910 Wright aircraft engine. Ref: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics publication AIAA-2001-3387 |
