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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Clay vertical sideshaft enginesBy Jerry W. Weber,6152 Sutter Loop West, Owensboro, Kentucky 42301 The Clay vertical sideshaft engine was built by the Clay Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio. The tag reads "Honest Clay", heavy duty engine, serial #3115. This engine was used to power a small tugboat on Green River and Rough Creek, running from Livermore to Hartford, Kentucky, delivering supplies before and during the Depression when water travel was one of the best modes of transportation of goods for this area. After the Depression, roads got better as well as everything else. Trucks took over most of the cargo the tug once hauled and with it went the living the little tug had made for its owner. As the towing slowly died away, the tug was run as a ferry coupling Ohio County to Livermore, Kentucky, the closest town, just a stones throw across the river or some 20 miles by lan... 811 of 5141 characters shown.
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