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William Schaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 348
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Saturday, October 23, 2010 - 08:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

ran across this ad, and don't know if you guys have seen it before.

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RichardDurgee
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Post Number: 2467
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 11:49 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Great ad, I have never seen any info on an air cooled Palmer!

The Mianus address would date the ad to late 1890's?

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William Schaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 349
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 12:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

1902 Automobile Trade Journal

http://books.google.com/books?id=ziWS46t9j8cC&pg=PA93&dq=dyke+float+feed&hl=en&e i=LGLETPPHCojDnAef9vTjCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBDg K#v=onepage&q&f=false
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RichardDurgee
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Post Number: 2468
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Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 02:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Interesting, the marine engine ads by 1902 were the Cos Cob address ?

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Ernie
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Post Number: 1282
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 02:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Cos Cob opened in 01 as the Palmer Boat Shop The Mianus location must have been completly moved to Cos Cob by 1905 as that is when the dam built by the New Haven Railroad was completed. That dam eliminated the Palmer dam at Mianus.
For more info use the search function and put in "Palmer upper works" and then in the keywords box select "and" (match all keywords)
Dick has a small amount of info on an air cooled outboard.
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Richard A. Day Jr.
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Username: richardday

Post Number: 906
Registered: 11-2003


Posted on Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 10:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

According to my records they moved the boat shop to Cos Cob in 1901 as Ernie says. They moved the machine shop in 1907 with the completion of the move from the upper works in 1910. I will dig out some pictures of their air cooled bicyle motors which appear as I remember in 1901. Henry Zerbarini (Palmer Bros. 1922-1968) Told me by 1920 Ray Palmer who was the engineer was no longer active in the plant operation. He came to work every day and just did projects he enjoyed. One of his projects was to make 6 or 8 outboard motors useing the 1901 bicycle engines. They were set up so the engine shaft drove a long propeller shaft extended aft of the transom. He gave them to local friends. They were not for sale, Back about 1993 I bought a Palmer Bros. unit missing its electric motor which was a prop on the end of a 30" shaft. Their 1935 Cider Mill catalog shows it was made for churning apple butter in large vats. On of the little known aspects of Palmer Bros. is they made Cider presses and all sorts of vinegar production items for making industrial quantities of vinegar.
The seller thought it was a Palmer outboard motor as it has a Palmer brass tag as the maker.
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Richard A. Day Jr.
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Username: richardday

Post Number: 907
Registered: 11-2003


Posted on Monday, October 25, 2010 - 09:53 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Here are a couple of pages from a ca 1901 Palmer catalog. Sorry the quality isn't better but Zerox of Zerox has its limits. Now you know as much as I know about Palmer's Bicycle engines. Palmer bicycle motors Palmer ca 1900 bicycle motors for OME
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William Schaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 387
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Monday, December 27, 2010 - 08:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

how about a car motor. 1905

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