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CONTINENTAL SEVEN ONE TEN

By Ivan Lowe,

6419 West Main, Turlock, California 95380

Greetings from the far West and the Central Valley of California. May we share with you a unified effort by a group of seven experienced old iron collectors to restore this large engine as pictured.

It is a 110 HP 2 cycle 2 cylinder hot head oil engine manufactured by the Continental Gin Company in Birmingham, Alabama around about 1920.

The Continental Gin Company was a large factory with impressive facilities to fabricate power plants for cotton gins and also for utility power companies.

Several years ago this engine was located in Yuma, Arizona, in a state of disrepair when a local cotton gin was dismantled. The period of service was from 1924 to 1949. It was located by Percy Goesch of Hughson, California while on a winter vacation in that area.

To transport a 17½ ton engine...

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