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An Early Farm Gas Engine Model

By H. Upshur

290 Appletree Drive, Media, Pennsylvania 19063.

I am writing this story because it may be of general interest to readers and in particular to the many people who have asked for more details on this farm gas engine model at the many meets where it has been run over the past six years. I have been asked if plans or castings are available for it and unfortunately they are not at the moment, except perhaps for the flywheel castings which are the only castings used in it. I hope to find time in the future to measure and draw plans for it.

As a teenage farm boy on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, part of my chores were to maintain and operate three engines that we had on the farm. One was a 5 HP Economy on the complete portable sawmill rig Sears sold. Another was a 3 HP Fairbanks Morse on the main farm water supply pump and the last was the smallest Economy on a corn sh...

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