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ANSWERS TO SEPT-OCT "WHAT IS IT?"

By John P. Wilcox

47 Deland Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43214

I happen to have some information relative to Russell Ginnow's interesting "B & EM Co." upright engine pictured in the Sept-Oct. "What is it?" (pg. 22). In your Nov-Dec "Smoke Rings" column Paul Harvey correctly interpreted the hieroglyphics as eminating from the Bates and Edmonds Motor Co. of Lansing, Mich. He mentioned that he also had an example with a "Fairbanks Co." nameplate and suggested that this concern might have been the real builder. Actually it was the other way around. Bates and Edmonds built the engines and Fairbanks Company jobbed them.

There are a number of engine floating around with nice brass tags that say "The Fairbanks Co, New York City," among them the 5 horse Callahan owned by Joe Davidson and myself (GEM Jul-Aug 1966, pg. 16). In 1...

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