Engine ID help needed

[Steve Coy]

I'm new to posting so please bear with me. The engine in the picture is coming up on an auction this spring. The lady who owns it says it's a Hippe-Steiner, a couple fellows I've shown the picture to claim it's a Christenson Badger. Indeed it's quite like the Christenson picture in Wendels book. There aren't any tags or numbers on the engine that I could find, other than 6HP on the side of the water hopper. Thanks in advance.

[David M. Lyon]

Gotta be a Christensen...Looks just like everyone I've ever seen...Might have been re-taged at one time, but it's a Christensen.

David M.

[Jim McCracken]

Yes it looks like a Christenson,Neat,original,in the dry barn,greasy,kind
of thing that engine collectors dreams are made of.If the auction has much exposure it will probably take deep pockets to buy it.Good luck to you !

Christenson Badger or if you live up here in canada they call it a renfrew (sp?)


good luck in purchasing this one, it looks in nice shape.

chuck

[Steve Coy]

Thanks for the help guys. Now I'm wondering what a Hippe-Steiner is and how it's different from a Steiner. I see it's in the Index of manufacturers in Wendels, but that's the only place I found that it shows up.

[Kevin A. Behnke]

Hippe Steiner is an earlier version of the Steiner Longlife engine. They are similar to each other, but differant, neather one made a sideshaft.

[Steve Coy]

Can you tell me the differences between them? Are the Hippe-Steiners also known as Steiner Longlife engines? The picture is a 12 Hp Steiner Longlife also on this auction. Behind it is a 10 HP Fuller and Johnson.

[Martin Reed]

For what it is worth, the Steiner engine looks to me to be a Lauson, made in Wisc. I'm no expert but a buddy of mine has a large number of them and it looks exactly like a mid-teens Lauson, even down to the type of cart.

Martin

[Jason]

Steiner's and Lawson's were only built about 10 miles away from each other. This could be the re3ason they look so much alike.