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walter chute
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Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 11:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Motor made in Buffalo N.Y. any info will be appreciated all I found was a snow sled with a 4 cylinder ad said they made valveless two-stroke gasoline engines, marine motors and eletric lighting plants.
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bruce
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Post Number: 565
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 10:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi Walt, I have a couple of them. one is actually all nichol plated and was salvaged from Keuka lake. One is badged Nichols and Wright and the other is just Wright with Buffalo as the city. One has Valveless script on the Flywheel face. try the Buffalo city directory from around 1905 or so. These may have been built in the Black Rock neighborhood. What do you have on the Valentine Marine engine Co.??
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richarddurgee
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Post Number: 3788
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 01:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Wright Motor Works 1904 earliest reference

Wright Motor Company by 1909

Nichols & Wright Motor Company by 1911 last
info 1915

1904-1915 same address 48 South Division Street Buffalo


Ad 1912

NW12



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bruce
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Post Number: 566
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Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2016 - 08:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

thanks for the ad Richard- had not seen this before. Nickel plated at the factory!! awesome!!
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walter_chute
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Posted on Friday, May 20, 2016 - 01:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thank you Bruce and Richard My motor is missing ID tag a 2 cylinder with some nickel on cylinders. Turns over and I was told it last ran 5 years ago at Alexander N.Y. show.
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richarddurgee
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Post Number: 3886
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2016 - 02:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Sled, about 1909


sled



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bruce
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Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2016 - 03:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Great stuff Richard!! Love the three ski bobs and the long fancy horn as if the horn would be louder than the engine... LOL!!!!!!
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rbprice
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Post Number: 557
Registered: 11-2001


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And absolutely no guards around the propeller! Those were the good old days! And not very long after the Wright Bros. first flew the Flyer so they jumped right on the engine technology.
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johnoxley
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Post Number: 162
Registered: 04-2010
Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2016 - 06:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Aircraft thinking - no guards there, and people do walk into the spinning prop.

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