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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
Oil Field Engine NewsScale Oil Field Engines: No "Small" FeatBy Russell FarmerWhen an engine is popular because of its rarity, age or historical significance, someone inevitably produces a replica or scale model of the original. The oil field engine hobby is no exception. To my knowledge, the largest - and only - company to produce a scale model oil field engine is Burns & Homer Engine Co. of New Carlisle, Ohio. For more than a quarter century this firm has produced 1/4- and 1/8-scale Reid engines, and a 1/4-scale Bessemer engine. Scale models seem to be all the rage, and the Burns & Homer Co. of New Carlisle, Ohio, has turned out some beautiful specimens. Pictured here is a full-size 25 HP Reid and a 6 HP Burns & Horner scale. In 1985 Robert Burns, his son, John, and Harry Horner made plans to build three fully ... 801 of 3448 characters shown.
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