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How Your Hobby Started Part VII

By Carleton M. Mull

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The brief histories of several of the successful gasoline engine manufacturers as was mentioned in the last issue, causes one to wonder about all of the other builders who started in production of engines as are mentioned in several of the old books on this subject.

Before 1910, there are records regarding the industry giving statistics on more than five hundred manufacturers of gasoline engines. How many more who attempted to get into the business is hard to surmise. We are considering only the stationary type of heavy duty engines and not those for automotive application. By the end of 1935, it is quite doubtful if there were more than twenty manufacturing companies left who had weathered the storm of competition.

Of the five hundred, the majority were located in the central states, such as Il...

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