Ron Mattson's Antique Engines Collectors New England Engines

Ron Mattson's
Antique Engine Collectors
New England Engines

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Over the last few years I have been collecting information about engines built in New England. Much of the research I have found has been recorded in the following database that I would like to share with you.

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The idea of compiling a list of New England built engines occurred to me a few years ago while doing research on an old gas engine that I had then recently acquired. In talking to people, in the coarse of that research, I was amazed by how little information was available about locally manufactured engines. It seemed to me that it should be easy to compile a listing of New England engines, after all New England is a small geographic area--Boy was I wrong! For as small as New England is, it has a rich history of manufacturing.

New England was the birth place of the industrial revolution in the United States and still continues to be a leader in the technology revolution of today. That manufacturing base is known to be one of the major factors that allowed the north to prevail in the civil war, and it follows that the birth of the internal combustion engine would occur here in New England. It also follows that the independent yankee craftsman would become intrigued with the potential of the internal combustion engine, and begin the development and manufacturing of them in what seems to be every nook and cranny of nineteenth century New England, and there in lies my problem.

As more and more names of manufactures of engines are uncovered, (currently 238) the task of researching each one of them becomes more formidable, and I now know that it is a project that I will never finish. What I have tried to do is to put together a list, from sources published, unpublished, word of mouth, old magazine ads, and from talking to people in the hobby of collecting old gas engines. This list is only partial, it is the information that I have to date, tomorrow or the next day, another piece of information will turn up and be added, but for now this is it. I would like to thank all the people who have helped with this project. A special thanks to Herb Greene and Bill Wolf who have been more then just helpful with the loan of books and information, and whose encouragement and support keeps this project on-going.

- Ron Mattson

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