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searcher
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Username: searcher

Post Number: 338
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 09:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Any connection to either Buffalo or Arrow or was it a way to capitalize on two well know names in the business?

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richarddurgee
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Post Number: 2181
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 - 11:07 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Searcher, That's a very rare photo ad, about 1906-10? what publication was it in ?
This Company was not related to the Buffalo Gasoline Eng Co. or the ( Arrow engs That weren't on the scene as early as this engine).
I Have never found a good article on this Co., The notes that i have in one case allude to a non pressurized crankcase two stroke ? and referances mention the horizontal throttle valve in the intake port allowing instant engine speeds ? they also in the teens were said to have T head marine engs available ?
My thinking out loud here is that the Name is tied to the Pierce Arrow Auto mfgring Co.
about 1906 an industrial designer by the name of Albert Kahn built a 34 acre mfgring complex in Buffalo on Great Arrow Street and pierce became Pierce Arrow about 1908 and occupied the facility until the 1930's mfging the well known autommobiles and some trucks, I have a 1913 ad For a Pierce Arrow T head marine engine. Were these Companies tied together in some way ??

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searcher
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Posted on Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 12:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Richard,
Glad you liked it. Here is a short article about the Buffalo Arrow that was in the same April 1908 issue of Power Boating.

The other photo, also from the April 1908 issue of Power Boating, is quite amusing. Early in the gasolene engine age, manufacturers made engines that resembled steam engines and wrote ads that compared their engines with the steam engine as to reliability and ease of use. Now it's 1908, and here is the Detroit Steam Engine Co. making their MacLachlan steam engines look like gasolene engines and even making comparisons to gasolene engines!


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