3423 Bowdish Road Spokane, Washington 99206
I hope you enjoy these photos. Photo #1 is of my grandfather,
Darwin Hanson, and I at the Spokane Interstate Fair. The engine is
a 5 HP round rod Galloway, of about 1907 vintage. My grandpa
rescued it from its 60 year rest in a horse corral in Montana. He
especially liked this engine because where he grew up in Minnesota,
they had one just like it. He spent one year restoring it. It is
one of the easiest of our engines to start.
Photo #2 is of me and a 1925 6 HP Fairbanks-Morse ‘Z’ I
recently restored. It was my first restoration. This particular
engine took six months to restore. I am currently working on a feed
grinder and a 2 cylinder pump of unknown identity (please see our
Reflections inquiry) for it to pull.
Photo #3 is of Grandpa and I with his 1912 2 HP Fairbanks-Morse
Type T ‘Special Electric’ model. This engine was all
complete, including the battery saver! Grandpa had to dig into the
ground to find all the parts. It is the smoothest running Fairbanks
Morse I have ever seen!
Other engines in our collection include an 8 HP Stover Type
‘X,’ a HP horizontal New Way, a 5 HP Nelson Bros-made
Monarch, an 8 HP single cylinder Caille marine engine, as well as
many others, totaling 49 engines. All of our engines that run are
well tuned up, easy to start, and run nicely.
