[SEL] Special Treat for Portland

[peter ogborne]

Can't answer your question Roger but i had a Clarke Troller ,beautiful 
example of cast alloy. I did a swap for another marine engine .
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger DiRuscio" <solarrog at pacbell.net>
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Special Treat for Portland


>I wonder if there is any connection with the Clarke-Troller canoe motors
> (Small outboards) of Detroit Mich. Same spelling same time period I think.
>
> Roger DiRuscio, Broker Associate,
> The Realty Experts, Fremont, Ca
> Sales since 1977, 510-797-4000 ofc
> Collector of cool antique engines
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Keith Kinney" <kkinney at herculesengines.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:03 PM
> Subject: [SEL] Special Treat for Portland
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>
>> In 1898 two brothers opened a gas engine factory in Evansville, Indiana, 
>> the Clarke Gas Engine Company.   They made mostly marine engines until 
>> the mid-1930.  It is estimated that they only made about 300 engines. 
>> With Evansville being my hometown, I have a special interest in the 
>> Clarke Gas Engines and have 5 of them in our collection.
>>
>> In doing research about the history of the company I found the son of one 
>> of the founders still living, Berry Clarke.  He currently lives in Fort 
>> Wayne, Indiana which is about an hour north of Portland.  I contacted him 
>> several years ago and during a visit with him got a lot of good 
>> information about the company.  He had a 4 HP Clarke engine that we just 
>> finished restoring for him.  With the engine now complete I called to see 
>> if he would be interested in coming to Portland to pick up the engine. 
>> His comment was something like this... "Since I'm 82 years old and you 
>> have done all the work to restore the engine, and since you have such a 
>> nice web page about the Clarke engines, why don't you just keep it".  He 
>> even mailed me an original Schebler carburetor left over from the Clarke 
>> factory.  As you can imagine I was thrilled.  To date we've only been 
>> able to locate about a dozen or so Clarke engines.
>>
>> Here's where the special treat for Portland comes in. He indicated that 
>> he'd like to visit Evansville sometime and see the engine.  I told him we 
>> could do better than that and  I have invited him to come to the Portland 
>> show to see the engine.  He is excited to do so and I have also invited 
>> him to be our guest at the Thursday evening dinner at the Back 40 
>> Junction.  (Dave, put me down for about 6 for the dinner.)
>>
>> There are not many people remaining who grew up and worked around the 
>> factories that built the engines we collect. This will be an excellent 
>> opportunity to get to meet and talk to someone who lived that experience. 
>> Please make a point to introduce yourselves and fill free to ask him any 
>> questions you might have about life around an early 1900's gas engine 
>> factory.
>>
>> To learn more about the company and engines here is a link to my web page 
>> about them:
>> http://www.herculesengines.com/clarke/index.htm
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Keith
>>
>>
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