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4 HP Witte #60851By Wayne D. RowellP.O. Box 6, Wilmington, VT 053 63 Clarence Ross, the current owner of this engine, tells how he heard an odd noise from the shop at the LaFleur place in 1912. He was passing by it on his way to school from his home on "Chair Shop Hill". Since the LaFleur boys were schoolmates of Clarence's it didn't take him long to determine the cause of the noise. Philip LaFleur, who was a carpenter, and who had been "boss carpenter" when the chair shop was built, had installed a gasoline engine to power the machines in the carpentry shop. A fire-proof room had been built to house the engine. Clarence purchased the property more than 35 years ago from the LaFleur estate, with the engine and shop included in the purchase. The engine, a 4 HP Witte headless with battery ignition and a clutch pulley, originally powered the saws, planers, etc, plus a... 812 of 2003 characters shown.
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