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Free Wheeling Powell-Lever Engine

This article, written by Menno Duerksen, originally appeared in Cars & Parts Magazine, March 1975 issue, and is reprinted with permission. It was sent to us by George N. Whiston, Jr., 508 North Range Street, Oblong, Illinois 62449, who would appreciate hearing from anyone who has information on the Powell-Lever design.

It must have been about the time when I was aged eight or ten, a youngster on the farm, when Father produced a long steel bar with a flat end, plus a heavy block of wood, and suggested that I help him grease the axle of our big horse drawn farm wagon.

Father shoved the block of wood up near the wagon axle and then shoved the big steel bar with the flat end under the axle, with the bar balanced over the wooden block and sticking out seven or eight feet behind the block.

Then he instructed me to heave all my weight downward on the bar. I found that a young squ...

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