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William Schaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 505
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 09:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I picked this up for basically nothing a few years back. Anyone know who made it?









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Ernie
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Username: ernie

Post Number: 1477
Registered: 01-2002


Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012 - 07:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Somewhere in the Detroit family is my guess.
I could really use the timer handle if you don't feel a need to keep it. I am sure I must have something you need
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jamie hurry
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Username: primetrucks

Post Number: 28
Registered: 03-2004
Posted on Monday, March 12, 2012 - 07:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

looks like a gile or a CT wright with the small 3 bolt water pump mounting holes.
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William Schaller
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Username: billschaller

Post Number: 507
Registered: 12-2003


Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 04:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Thanks Jamie, that looks like it.

Ernie, sorry, I am going to use this engine as a test mule for restoration techniques, I figure after I teach myself how to weld cast, make patterns, cast brass and bronze and iron, grind crankshaft, pour babbitt etc, this motor will be done. I would much rather wreck something on this motor, than a rare one.
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RichardDurgee
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Username: richarddurgee

Post Number: 2781
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 04:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Ernie & Jamie are both right on, wrote about this in the past but a quick revue !

Gile designed and mfgrd engines in the 1904 era
in 1907 C.T Wright bought Gile out and Gile worked for Wright for a year, he then left to open a new Company Gile Boat and Engine Co. in Ludington,Michigan 1909, he had sold his patents to Wright so he went to the Detroit Conglomerate and bought rights to one of their proven designs but Giles seems the only one with single three bolt water pump flange !
To compicate Identity sometimes, C.T.Wright in Greenville made his original engs, the Gile engs and after Gile left he bought Detroit engs to fill in HP gaps in his line !!

Thats the rest of the story !


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