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Maynard Engines from The Charles William Store

By Stan Matlowski

I hope readers will enjoy these old advertisements for Maynard engines, which originally appeared in 1916 in the The Charles William Stores New York annual catalog. Charles Williams was a large mail order store based in New York City.

According to the catalog, Maynard engines were manufactured at a plant in Pennsylvania. I understand early Maynard engines were actually made by Jacobsen Machine Manufacturing Co. in Warren, Pa., with later engines made by Nelson Bros. Co., Saginaw, Mich.

My interest in Maynard engines is the 1-1/2 HP Jr. I acquired my first Jr. in the mid-1980s. The engine is complete and shows serial no. Ml 1611. I have given it a valve job, and I've located an original crank guard to replace its missing guard. It has some original reddish-maroon paint, and the...

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