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billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 684
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 07:14 pm: | 
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with Murray and Tregurtha
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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3976
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 10:03 pm: |
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Bill
Good stuff - heard of this engine but had never seen a photo or that Murray & Tregurtha made it !
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keith
Senior Member
Username: keith
Post Number: 488
Registered: 02-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 11:44 pm: |
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Bill,
Neat. What's the year?
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billschaller
Senior Member
Username: billschaller
Post Number: 685
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2017 - 01:14 am: |
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The ad on ebay says "from Motor Boating May 1932". |
richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 3979
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, April 02, 2017 - 01:48 am: |
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The Hydro Glider was just one of the many names and types of the original and patented design of "SEA SLEDS" different designs and engines of sea sleds are mentioned in several marine articles. I now remember that in reading MIAMI,Florida history (my hometown) That Carl Fisher the man that formed the Prest-O-Lite company also the primary drive behind the making of the Indianapolis speedway came to Miami and developed Miami Beach. he made the Venetian causeway by dredging and forming islands and connecting Miami to his isles and Miami Beach, on one of these islands he had a rather large storage boathouse and in the 1930's it housed several of the SEA Sleds, I recall reading many yrs ago that one of the sleds had a Buda engine and one had an aero air cooled engine, I have forgotten the others.
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