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Two Gas Engines Running: Or, From Mouse House & Mud Dauber Nest to Restoration

By Donald L. Siefker

R.R. 13, Box 302, Muncie, Indiana 47302

Everyone who has restored gasoline engines no doubt has tales to tell. This is my attempt at recording a couple of episodes in the history of two engines. These two engines were discovered and collected by me and restored by myself and my father, Louis Siefker (an engine restorer par-excellent) of Seymour, Indiana. The first engine is an International Harvester Model LA, 1 1/2-2 1/2 h.p. The second engine is a Fairbanks Morse Model Z, Style D, 2 h.p. I discovered the International Harvester engine by following up on a public auction add in a local paper. Included in this farm sale listing was an "old gas engine". The sale was on a Saturday and it happened to be one that I was working, so on the Friday evening before the auction my father-in-law, Merritt Marsh...

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