2090 Keokuk Street #71 Hamilton, Illinois 62341-1200
This is my 15 HP Pattin Bros, engine number 2537, built in
Marietta, Ohio. It’s a two-cycle engine of crosshead design
with hot tube ignition and operates on LP gas. This engine is
believed to have powered a cotton mill down in Alabama.
After assembling the front half of the engine, lots of scraping,
priming, painting, and many turns of the flywheels, I have it
starting and running just fine.
I’d like to thank John Preston in Michigan, Roy Namchick in
Illinois, and everyone else who answered my requests in GEM for
help. Also, I want to thank Fred Buckart and his boys for setting
the Patton onto a new trailer.
Finally, I’d like to thank all my engine exhibitors who
turned out for the 31st annual Western Illinois Threshers Bee,
which is always the first full weekend in August.
Next year we’ll be featuring Maytag engines. Thanks again,
everyone, and I’ll see ya at the shows!