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Mietz and Weiss 2-1/2 HP

By Robert and Gail Benedict

Once a Duty Engine at a Soda Factory, Mietz and Weiss Serial Number 7507 is Back in Form - and in the States - After 85 Years in the Caribbean

The 2-1/2 HP Mietz and Weiss flywheel engine featured here found its way to the Brow Soda factory at 65-66 King St., Frederiksted, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, in 1910. Mr. C.R.T. Brow, the owner of the soda factory, purchased the engine that same year while he was visiting New York City, and it arrived in St. Croix after being shipped via a steamer from New York. This engine is believed to have been built some time around 1906 to 1907.

As a young boy growing up in St. Croix in the 1930s, I vividly remember this engine turning the belt-driven carbonator and bottler of the Brow Soda factory while blowing exhaust smoke rings into the trees above the roof. Government rationing of sugar during WW II ca...

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