The What Is It Column Helps to Identify Smaller Gas Engines

By Staff
Published on July 1, 1966
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Photo courtesy of Morris Blomgren, Siren, Wisconsin.
Photo courtesy of Morris Blomgren, Siren, Wisconsin.
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Photo courtesy of W.E. Wally Nelson, Valley Springs, South Dakota.
Photo courtesy of W.E. Wally Nelson, Valley Springs, South Dakota.
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Photo courtesy of W.E. Wally Nelson, Valley Springs, South Dakota.
Photo courtesy of W.E. Wally Nelson, Valley Springs, South Dakota.

The What Is It Column answers questions about photos in order to identify smaller gas engines.

What is it? Learn how to identify smaller gas engines. This small engine I purchased had no name plate on
it. The mag is line a Briggs & Statton. It has a brass
carburetor and a small flywheel and the valves in the head.

Courtesy of Houston L. Herndon, President of Sarasota-Bradenton
Speedway, Sarasota, Florida.

What was the smallest conventional horizontal water-cooled
(hopper not radiator) gas engine manufactured and sold in the
United States?

Two photos of an engine owned by me.

It has the radiator in fly wheel and has a clutch and sprocket
as was used to run grain binders. Note the two rubber hoses leading
into the middle of the fly wheel.

This is a Pierson Motor, designed by E.B. Cushman. It was
patented and Manufactured by The Pierson Telegraph Transmitter Co.
of Topeka, Kansas. It is a 5 H.P. Speed 950 No. A782.

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