[SEL] Salesman Sample Olds?

[Judge Tommy Turner]

No tag on it Arnie.  I doubt this thing would produce 1/2 HP but it 
might.  I've never seen any mention of an engine this small in the Olds 
literature.  Everything I've seen shows the 1 1/2 HP as the smallest 
Type A.  I had one person contact me and say it definately was a 
Salesman Sample.  He said that about 40 years ago he talked to an 
elderly gent who worked for Olds.  The guy told him that when Olds 
started building the Type A, they made several miniature Type A engines 
for the salesmen to take around to the dealers and jobbers to show them 
what the new engines would look like.  It was their attempt to ease the 
transition from one to the other.  It makes sense as the Type A's were a 
radical change from the gearless models that Olds had been making. 

Tommy Turner
Magnolia, KY



fero_ah at city-net.com wrote:

>Hi Tommy,
>
>Given that there were fractional horsepower engines built and sold (I'm thinking
>of the 1/2 hp New Holland and any number of the tiny English engines), is it
>possible that your baby Olds was a production unit?  Is there any sort of tag
>on the engine?  Does anyone have any Olds engine literature that might mention
>Tommy's baby?
>
>See ya,  Arnie
>
>Quoting Judge Tommy Turner <lcjudge at scrtc.com>:
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>>You asked 
>>earlier how much the little Olds weighed, I would guess about 50 lbs.  
>>You can pick it up and move it around fairly easily.
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>>
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