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Manufacturers who offered spoked and then solid flywheels?


How many engine mfg. lasted long enough to manufacure engines that did not have spoked flywheelss?

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Old 09-29-2004, 10:50 PM
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Default Manufacturers who offered spoked and then solid flywheels?

How many engine mfg. lasted long enough to manufacure engines that did not have spoked flywheelss?
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Old 09-29-2004, 11:02 PM
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Fairbanks Morse is definitely one of them.

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Old 09-29-2004, 11:12 PM
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IHC would be one, cushman may be also be another?!?

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Old 09-29-2004, 11:16 PM
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Hercules, Stover

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Old 09-29-2004, 11:44 PM
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Lauson, (Alpha De Laval), Sattley

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Old 09-29-2004, 11:50 PM
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Fuller & Johnson
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Old 09-30-2004, 12:09 AM
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The Fuller & Johnson farm pump engines came out in 1909, and had a solid flywheel from the start.
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Old 09-30-2004, 06:28 AM
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Armstrong Whitworth AW circa 1920.

Click the link to see mine after it followed me home.

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Old 09-30-2004, 07:54 AM
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They made an engine without a spoked flywheel since 1909!

Cheers! NICK
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Old 09-30-2004, 08:32 AM
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Sandwich(vert.), Challenge, Bluffton
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Old 09-30-2004, 11:20 AM
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Witte, JK & XK Economys
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Old 09-30-2004, 01:04 PM
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Nelson Brothers model U.
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Old 09-30-2004, 03:00 PM
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Novo made solid flywheel engines including a air cooled. BobRR
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Old 09-30-2004, 07:52 PM
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For those of you across the pond, how about Lister... Travis
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Old 09-30-2004, 11:04 PM
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new idea
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Old 09-30-2004, 11:27 PM
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Bean
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Old 10-02-2004, 03:08 AM
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NOVO, Jacobsen, Detroit Engine Works - Marine
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You all forgot Witte Engine Company, Witte manufactured several single and twin cylinder diesel engines.


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djohnson@arrowengine.com
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Default Re: Manufacturers who offered spoked and then solid flywheels?

Rumely, (they did make a stationary unit)
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Default Re: Manufacturers who offered spoked and then solid flywheels?

I don't know if you would consider Hart Parr an ENGINE manufacturer but they DID offer power units too. Sooooooooooooo.............Hart Parr.
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