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Name That Engine #7 - Solved! 45 horsepower Overland engine -1909
« on: August 19, 2007, 09:30:48 AM »


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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2007, 10:42:05 AM »
Based on the unusual wheel on the front (back?), I guess industrial prime mover for a belt power system, circa....1915 or so.
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2007, 05:32:23 AM »
In this instance, this engine was used to power an automobile.
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2007, 05:48:03 AM »
The thing at the front would have been a crankshaft vibration damper, essential for a straight six and probably the invention of Fred Lanchester in 1905/6.
It's not a Lanchester engine. but with its separate dome-topped cylinders it looks about 1906 or so.
Quite big, so is it from the USofA?
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2007, 01:15:16 AM »
It is.
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2007, 05:32:52 AM »
Time to get this one back in gear...
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2008, 05:23:43 AM »
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2008, 04:55:10 AM »
This six-cylinder motor is from 1909.
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2008, 10:29:08 AM »
Looks a lot like a Cadillac 30 engine but with two extra cylinders.
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2008, 10:30:15 AM »
This maker was a bit down-market from Cadillac.
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2008, 12:32:14 PM »
Downmarket might mean Ford, but he'd given the K up by 1909.
Perhaps it's a Continental engine
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2008, 12:58:13 PM »
Not a Ford, nor a Continental.
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2008, 05:53:14 AM »
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2008, 10:28:55 AM »
I would like to move this in the solved section...I've got a list of six-cylinder american cars from 1909...should I post them one by one or I should try to narrow down this list? For example is it a (relatively) well-known builder?
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2008, 01:16:32 PM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 30, 2008, 10:28:55 AM
I would like to move this in the solved section...I've got a list of six-cylinder american cars from 1909...should I post them one by one or I should try to narrow down this list? For example is it a (relatively) well-known builder?

Yes, it is from a well-know American builder!
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2008, 01:52:17 PM »
Ok, then
ACME
ALCO
AMERICAN NAPIER
ANHUT
CAMERON
HOUPT
LOZIER
MATHESON
PIERCE-ARROW
PIGGINS
STANDARD SIX
THOMAS
WELCH
WILLYS-OVERLAND
WINTON

My guess.... Pierce Arrow Model 36\48\60?
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2008, 03:57:49 PM »
Quote from: Paul Jaray on October 30, 2008, 01:52:17 PM

My guess.... Pierce Arrow Model 36\48\60?


Reply #9, above, would suggest the answer is "no".
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2008, 04:08:08 PM »
Willys-Overland Model 34 or a 45HP?
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Re: Name That Engine #7
« Reply #18 on: October 31, 2008, 03:42:45 AM »
Indeed - it is a six-cylinder, 45 horsepower Overland engine, from 1909.

Thanks for putting this oldie but goody to rest!
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Re: Name That Engine #7 - Solved! 45 horsepower Overland engine -1909
« Reply #19 on: October 31, 2008, 05:42:31 AM »
My pleasure! ;)
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