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richarddurgee
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Username: richarddurgee

Post Number: 1455
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 02:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Any one have information on Watermota Marine Engines built in England by the Walter D. Fair Company around 1916 ??

Thanks in advance


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ernie
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Username: ernie

Post Number: 621
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 05:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yup they look like Waterman copper tops.
They were made up into the 70's I think untill the factory burned. Mike Collin has a single cylinder. Last I know Watermota was still in business marinizing Ford diesels
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foxman
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Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 10:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I'm not sure what the Walter D Fair company did early one pre WW1. It appears they built small inboards based on the Waterman. Their big thing so to speak was outboards. Walter Fair.s son Colin was an outboard enthusiast. In the early 1920's they built a rather bigger and heavier version of the 1915 ear Waterman. Colin Fair and Shingi Yano, a Japanese engineer working in England redesigned the one cylinder service outboard into a racing motor. This became a popular motor in the small outboard racing circuit in England. Yano was killed in an accident testing one of these motors. Production of all motors was very small, in the 30's according to Fair it was about 100 engines a year. I would suppose Walter D Fair was a very small custom workshop operation, very much in the British style. You can get all the information you need in D.W. Fostle's Speedboat book. Mr Fostle interviewed Colin Fair when he was in his nineties.
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DavidGHumphreys
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Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 06:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yes I ahve a manual on the watermota 3HP and 6HP engines and an almost working example of the K2 twin
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captainbill
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Username: captainbill

Post Number: 4
Registered: 04-2002
Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 02:33 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

foxman. My "Speedboat" book by D.W.Fostle has nothing about Walter Fair or his son Colin? Hey David, how can I get a copy of the Watermota manual for my 1918 3hp Watermota single? Bill
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foxman
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Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 07:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

sorry I goofed
I meant Power Boat by Kevin Desmond. Mr. Fair
was mentioned in the Chapter "Souping up the Waterbugs
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gronholmaki
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Posted on Friday, March 06, 2009 - 03:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

to DavidGHumphreys.
Waht do you want for one copy, off you manual 3HP_6HP, it seems to be i have Watermota k2 twin engine orginal instalet skaw26.
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chipper5927
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Posted on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 12:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Can anybody help me find as much information as I can get on a 3 H.P. Watermota No. K1-3308 I own one and am looking at getting it up and running and would love pictures or a manual web site anything that would assist me
Thanks
Chip
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trevorb
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Username: trevorb

Post Number: 8
Registered: 06-2009
Posted on Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 11:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Hi, I am working on restoring a Watermota K2 6HP. Does anyone have any photographs of the hot water out pipework for when such an engine is NOT fitted into a boat, but on a stationary engine mounting ?

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