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The Chapman Engine & Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

By Denis Rouleau

48 Beausejour Street, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada J8T-5V6

In August 1997, I acquired a 2 HP, Style "A," Canadian Chapman gasoline engine built in Dundas, Ontario. This engine is complete and everything is free on it. The farmer who sold me the engine told me that his father brought this Chapman home in the early forties, put it in one corner of the shed, where it was left undisturbed for over fifty years, just waiting for me to come around and get it. Unfortunately, nothing is known about this Chapman's prior working years.

The first thing I do before I start the restoration of an old engine, is to gather as much information as I can about the company that built the engine and about the engine itself. For more common engines like Fairbanks-Morse and IHC it is relatively easy to find old advertisement literature, instruct...

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