[SEL] Special Treat for Portland
peter ogborne
jopeter at omninet.net.au
Thu Aug 18 04:56:54 PDT 2005
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
> Website; scrapologist.com
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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
>
>
>> 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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