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William Schaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 505
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 09:35 pm: | 
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I picked this up for basically nothing a few years back. Anyone know who made it?
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Ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 1477
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012 - 07:32 am: |
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Somewhere in the Detroit family is my guess.
I could really use the timer handle if you don't feel a need to keep it. I am sure I must have something you need |
jamie hurry
Member
Username: primetrucks
Post Number: 28
Registered: 03-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012 - 07:29 pm: |
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looks like a gile or a CT wright with the small 3 bolt water pump mounting holes.  |
William Schaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 507
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 04:03 pm: |
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Thanks Jamie, that looks like it.
Ernie, sorry, I am going to use this engine as a test mule for restoration techniques, I figure after I teach myself how to weld cast, make patterns, cast brass and bronze and iron, grind crankshaft, pour babbitt etc, this motor will be done. I would much rather wreck something on this motor, than a rare one. |
RichardDurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 2781
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 04:49 pm: |
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Ernie & Jamie are both right on, wrote about this in the past but a quick revue !
Gile designed and mfgrd engines in the 1904 era
in 1907 C.T Wright bought Gile out and Gile worked for Wright for a year, he then left to open a new Company Gile Boat and Engine Co. in Ludington,Michigan 1909, he had sold his patents to Wright so he went to the Detroit Conglomerate and bought rights to one of their proven designs but Giles seems the only one with single three bolt water pump flange !
To compicate Identity sometimes, C.T.Wright in Greenville made his original engs, the Gile engs and after Gile left he bought Detroit engs to fill in HP gaps in his line !!
Thats the rest of the story !
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