STANDARD
This engine was built by the Standard Motor Construction Company of
Jersey City, New Jersey, about 1915.
It was the auxiliary unit in a WWI submarine chaser and provided an air
compressor for starting the large engines, a combination fire and bilge
pump, and a DC generator for all the lights on the ship.
It came here in the 2000s.
LAZIER
This engine was built for Lazier of Buffalo, New York, in 1903 by Close and
Caldwell of Bradford, Pennsylvania. It
has characteristics of all Buffalo built
engines and is the only
Close and Caldwell known.
Note the “backward” main bearings and the disc crank.
It powered a small woodworking shop in upstate New York and came to the
museum in the late 1970s.
ALAMO
Made in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is an unusual model designed to burn
kerosene and has a throttling governor.
Vintage would be circa 1910 and it came to the museum in the late
1990s. It had been owned by
the late Murray Clark of Clark’s Trading Post and most likely operated a
small shop in New Hampshire.
CROSSLEY
This unique engine-air compressor combination unit was built by Crossley
Brothers of Manchester, England, about 1915.
It provided compressed air to start their larger engines such as
the one beside it. It
features the Crossley two side shaft design. Note the compressor is not
visible from this photo as it is on the off side.
It came to the museum in the 1990s.