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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. |
West Virginia Weber: A Great FindBy Jesse E. Cook3423 Younger Drive, Charleston, West Virginia 25306 Weber engine as found. This story began ten years ago when a friend told me about two old flywheels sticking out of an old pump house along side of a busy interstate highway one-quarter mile outside the city limits of Charleston, West Virginia. I went to take a look for myself; sure enough, the pump house contained a Weber 8 HP gasoline sideshaft engine. A closer look revealed a brass tag that read "Weber Gas and Gasoline Engine Builders, Kansas City, Missouri, patent date January 6, 1891, Serial # 9209, Shop # 5607." It was hooked to a Myers three inch bulldozer pump, patent date April 23, 1909. Both units were very rusty and completely stuck, but every piece right down to the old buzz coil was there. The owner was easy to find but after listening to his st... 799 of 2668 characters shown.
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