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searcher
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Username: searcher

Post Number: 631
Registered: 10-2004
Posted on Tuesday, June 09, 2015 - 11:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

In perusing old boating magazines, I occasionally note engines that bear unfamiliar names. Eventually, I started keeping a list of such engines and here are the first fourteen from that list. All of the engines on the list were mentioned in a marine context. Some of these may be auto engines converted to marine use. Some are single cylinder engines according to a seller, a reporter, or the author of an article. Some may be of foreign manufacture (Mora, Lindveit, for instance?). Are any of these engines from Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermont?

Palmer-Singer
Eastern Standard Engine
Kensington
Flanders
Mora
Lindveit
Rochet Schneider
Fall River
R.C.H.
Burgess
Ackers
Lindell
Ferman
Adams Frazier
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Eric Schulz
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Post Number: 94
Registered: 01-2007


Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 07:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Several of these names are car manufacturers. If they made marine engines I do not know.
Makes I know for certain as auto brands are Flanders, Mora, Palmer-Singer, R.C.H. and Rochet-Schneider.

Eric
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searcher
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Post Number: 632
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Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 11:21 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Eric,

Thanks for the response.

The fourteen engines on the list I posted here were whittled down from the first twenty five on the master list. I was able to eliminate eleven through research in the two volumes of the BYB, Old Marine Engines, and American Marine Engines. Now, with your input, I can eliminate another five.

I do not have a reference to use for eliminating early automobiles. Can you suggest one?
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RichardDurgee
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Post Number: 3587
Registered: 11-2001
Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 11:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Ackers and Adam Frazier are the only North American marine engines on the list !

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RichardDurgee
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Post Number: 3588
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Posted on Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 12:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Frazer Adams


fa1


fa2


No photo of an Acker Engine, they were mfgd by Bayonne Launch Company, New Jersey 1912


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Harry Nicholson
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Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 01:24 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I wonder if the given bizarre bore is correct (3 1/6") in this ad from March 1923.
1923 Frazer-Adams Single
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Ernie
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Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 07:06 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Old engine mfrs often used odd bore sizes so the customer had to purchase rings from them.
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Eric Schulz
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Post Number: 96
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Posted on Saturday, June 27, 2015 - 02:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Searcher, this is a late reply, but if you haven't found a car reference book, I would suggest Complete Encyclopedia of Motor Cars by GN Georgano. You could borrow it from a library, buy a new copy or a used one from abebooks.com.

Harry, Henry Ford didn't think 3-1/16" bore size bizarre, as he built thousands of V8s with just that size.

Eric
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searcher
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Post Number: 633
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Posted on Saturday, June 27, 2015 - 09:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Eric, thanks for the car reference. I hadn't yet pursued any research on car books as my wife requested my involvement in one of her projects. So, you helped me again. My wife wanted us to participate in a professional archaeology dig this past week. The dig is on the site of a 1600's tavern/garrison house in southern Maine. Her direct ancestor was living within a mile of the tavern in 1690 so he likely was a familiar face in that tavern. She puts up with my old iron so the least I could do was dig small, precisely laid out, square holes in the ground along with her to look for very, very old iron.

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