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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. |
Gas Engine MemoriesBy Harry FischbachBox 57, Kettlersville, Ohio 45336 I am 77 years old and I bought my first gasoline engine in 1906. It was an air-cooled engine, 11/2 hp. and was called the "never freeze". I don't recall what the name of the company was and I don't think anybody knows how many different makes were built, but there were hundreds of them and I think more than 75% were of the slow speed, heavy duty, hopper-cooled, make and break ignition type. They were built to last for farm use and were from 1 hp. to 3 hp., mostly on skids for pumping, churning and running the grindstone and other light work. Portables for heavy work as sawing, shredding, grinding and other uses. They were built from 5 hp. to 15 hp. mostly, but for industrial use, up to several hundred hp. From about 1895 to 1910 we lived right in the midst of a big oil boom and on a quiet morning you coul... 798 of 3276 characters shown.
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