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richarddurgee
Posted on Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 11:47 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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

Sneckner
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Ernie
Posted on Saturday, September 21, 2002 - 06:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

congrats it looks like you found out what it is.
Ernie
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richarddurgee
Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 09:46 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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richarddurgee
Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 12:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Richard Day
Posted on Sunday, September 22, 2002 - 09:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Ernie
Posted on Monday, September 23, 2002 - 09:28 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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teresa zundel
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Posted on Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 09:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

this engine was built by my great grand father frank sneckner
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MICHELE VILCEK
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Posted on Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 10:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

FRANK SNECKNER WAS ALSO MY GREAT GRANDFATHER
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richarddurgee
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Post Number: 1427
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 07:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Stamford Motor Company 1905

Manufacturer of

Sneckner Gasoline Engines

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sTAM05S2
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ernie
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Post Number: 594
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 02:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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richarddurgee
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 03:23 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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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
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ernie
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Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 06:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Richard,
Thanks and Ok. I will see what I can do with Standard
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billschaller
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Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - 10:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

postcard

Stamford Motor Company

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ernie
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Posted on Friday, October 26, 2012 - 12:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Bill can you send me this in hi res?
Thanks
Ernie
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billschaller
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Post Number: 548
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Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 07:41 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Sorry Ernie,

it was a postcard on ebay that is gone now.
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richardday
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Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 10:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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ernie
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Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 03:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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ernie
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Posted on Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 08:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2012 - 09:57 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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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

mc1
mc2


mcport
mclower


fly


aft


mcIllus

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Bill & Ernie, your posts are appreciated,
Cool Stuff !


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