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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 MasterpieceNew York Collector's Determination Brings Rare 25 HP 1901 Swan Back to LifeBy Craig PruchaCraig Prucha and the 25 HP Swan at the Coolspring (Pa.) Power Museum on the day he bought it in 1998. Editor's note: This article is the first of a two-part series chronicling the restoration of a 1901 Swan oil field engine. In mid-October 1998 I drove from my home in Pavilion, N.Y., to the Coolspring (Pa.) Power Museum to lend a hand on a volunteer work detail at the museum. In the middle of things, I was talking to Paul Harvey, the museum's co-founder, about a Swan engine behind one of the museum's buildings. Paul told me he owned the 25 HP Swan, and that he had purchased it about 30 years earlier. I needed a winter project, so 1 asked him if he would be interested in selling the Swan. My heart stopped for a few short sec... 791 of 9607 characters shown.
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