The December 1966 Meeting of the Pioneer Gas Engine Association

By Staff
Published on March 1, 1966
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PHOTO: LESLIE J. CAVES
Tractor photo courtesy of Leslie J. Caves, Lyons, N. Y.

Dorothy Smith shares notes from the December 1966 Pioneer Gas Engine Association meeting.

The December meeting of the Pioneer Gas Engine Association,
Inc., was held at the Mendon Pioneer Museum, Honeoye Falls, N. Y.,
on Sunday, December 5th. There were about 90 people present, including
members, their wives and children. It was a Christmas party and the
room was decorated accordingly. Each member brought a gift wrapped
children’s toy, which was later donated to the Newark State
School, Newark, N. Y., a school for the mentally handicapped. We
hope this will become an annual custom.

We did not have a business meeting. The people had a great time
visiting and exchanging stories. Later on we all enjoyed a pot luck
supper. Music for round and square dancing was furnished by our
Vice-President, Harry Schoff, and two of his friends. A good time
was had by all.

The next meeting date is February 6th, at 2:00 at Honeoye Falls.
Movies and slides will be shown. It should be very interesting.
Anyone interested in the restoration and preservation of old
gasoline engines, tractors, and allied equipment is invited to
come.

At the present time we have 177 members signed up for 1966, as
compared with 108 for the same time last year. Dues $2.00 per year.
For further information contact the President. Donald Lutevn. Sr., Palmyra, N. Y., or the Secretary, Mrs. Dorothy
Smith, Ontario, N. Y.

Well, I received ‘The Baby’ and it is a fine magazine.
Keep up the good work. I am sending a snapshot of my 1918 Titan
tractor, that I have restored and painted. My brother and I each
have one of these tractors, his is a 1916 with a very low serial
number. We bought them in very sad condition as they had been
sitting in a field for many years. Every part on them was set up,
after much penetrating oil and work we have them running. We still
have a lot of work to do on the front end of my brother’s, as
the wheels fell apart when we hooked on them to pull them out to
the truck.

I guess I was always an engine nut even as a young lad on
Dad’s farm. In 1926 or 27 I found an old Gray horizontal 2 H.
P. gas engine in a neighbor’s barn. It was set up and very
rusty but I thought I could get it running. I asked him how much he
wanted for it and he told me $5.00. The only way I had to earn
money in those days was trapping. To make a long story short I
earned the money, bought the engine, and got it running. Dad used
it for a pump at the spring to fill the sprayrig. I thing it was
finally scrapped, much to my sorrow, as we collect them now. We
have 17 engines between us.

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