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AN IDENTIFICATION

By Mr. T. H. Krueger

1615 San Francisco Street, San Antonio, Texas 78201

On top of page 28 of the November-December 1966 issue of G.E.M. is that treasured 1914 picture of a tractor with a canopy, courtesy of Gerald Jacobson, 212 South Cedar Street, Marshfield, Wisconsin, 54449. The tractor shown is a "K. C. Gasoline Traction Engine", built (about 1910) by the Kansas City Hay Press Company, Kansas City, Missouri. It is a single cylinder, 4-cycle engine of the OPPOSED-PISTON type, not opposed-cylinder type. Gerald Jacob-son has properly described the engine.

The engine has one long cylinder-barrel, with two pistons working in this barrel, the piston-heads coming nearly together at the middle. The space left between the pistons forms the combustion space where the make and break igniter is, where the fuel-air mixture is taken in and the exhaust gases are let out. This oppose...

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