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The Straubel Engine Story

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By John M. Edgerton

27 Loon Lake Road Bigfork, Montana 59911

Since the Straubel marine engine story was printed in the July 1997 issue of GEM, I received a letter from Mr. Dick Straubel that his father, Don Straubel (son of Ernest Straubel, one of the founders of the Straubel Machine Company) passed away on May 13, 1997. He was 82 years old. I was going to wait until the article was published in GEM before I sent him an issue. I waited too long. Time waits for no man!

On the brighter side of things, I received a letter from Mr. Richard Eisenreich of Rio Linda, California, asking me to write about his experience with the Straubel engine. So here, in his own words, is his remembrance of the engine.

"I lived the first 20 years of my life in Green Bay, Wisconsin. In 1948, my brother Larry and a friend, John Nugent, acquired a ...

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