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More On Hill Diesels

By Jack Heemsoth

9955 14 Mile Road, Marshall, Michigan 49068

In my continuing quest for Hill diesels, parts and information I ran across a fellow, Raymond Peterson, who I talked to at Mason, Michigan, a collector of Hills and other engines. He had a supply of Hill parts he had obtained from WHW Machine & Tool Company in Lansing, Michigan, who were the parts suppliers for Hills after Hill closed.

After trying to locate Raymond again, I found out he had been admitted to a nursing home and his nephew, Donald Rohde, was cleaning up for him. I was able to obtain many parts, prints and patterns from him.

The prints show that Bates & Edmonds started in 1920, building a vertical oil engine with the Hvid fuel system. In the late 1920s Hill built a 5 x 7 model B engine with their own fuel system. I have one of these. Later model B's had Bosch systems. The model B wa...

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