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IN RESPONSE

By T. H. Krueger

1615 San Francisco St. San Antonio, Texas 78201

On page 32 of Mar-Apr. 1967 GEM, Fred Gertje is asking for identification of the 5 hp. engine he has; also, asking if Fairbanks-Morse ever used red paint on their engines. I don't think F. M. painted many of their engines red. They do not state the color they are painted in the catalogs. A couple of my catalogs, 1909 and 1910, have a couple of lithographical illustrations, which show their vertical (about 4 hp. and a 1 hp. horizontal hopper-cooled, in red. The later catalogs (F.M.) show no colors.

I remember well, up on a farm near Beloit, Wisconsin, Dad was about to leave with his one-horse hitched to the light farm wagon, to get a type "H" 4 hp. horizontal hopper-cooled gasoline engine to be used to rus the farm grinder, sheller and fodder-cutter; since he didn't want me to go along in getting the engine from th...

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