[SEL] Special Treat for Portland

[Keith Kinney]

No connection that I've been able to identify.
Keith


At 11:31 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote:
>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.
>
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Kinney" 
><kkinney at herculesengines.com>
>To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
>Cc: <stationary-engine at oldengine.org>
>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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