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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. |
Collector Allan RileyBy Don Riley21224 Placerita Canyon Road Newhall, CA 91321 Allan Riley is the senior member of our Western Antique Power Associates Engine Club at Alhambra, California. He turned age 102, and counting, last July 14. He was born close by Jackson Junction near Fort Atkinson, Iowa, in 1885. By 1903, he worked for the Hart-Parr tractor company going out to farms to instruct in the usage and repair of tractors. He could have roamed the world servicing Hart-Parrs, but chose to join his sisters in California by 1905. There he worked breaking horses on a ranch in Red-lands until he started to U.S.C. and lived in the oldest building still standing on that campus. He still has some papers he prepared for a mechanical drawing class. They are marked "Very good." The adventure of marriage to Beulah Donnell in 1910 included fathering four daughters and two sons. By 1913 he was... 819 of 2859 characters shown.
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