[SEL] Olds engine register

[Peter Lowe]

Hi Ron
An Olds engine might be OK, but I need another Register like I need a hole 
in the head ;-))
The R&V register database has 37,000 fields of R&V information, sorting and 
cross referencing keeps me busy.
More info arrived in the mail today from various universities and libraries, 
I am now starting to get the gist of how those Yanks hoard away their 
archived info.;-)) finally !!

Regards
Peter Lowe
R&V Engine Registrar
Australia
http://www.oldengine.org/members/plowe/rv-engines/rvpage.htm



> Hi Peter
> That was a big no
> you should get yourself one instead of those clunking R&V's .Nice smooth 
> and
> slow running.
> Ron & Liz Sullivan
> oldengines at bigpond.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Lowe" <plowe at exemail.com.au>
> To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Olds engine register
>
>
>> Hi Mike
>> NO, I am not wanting to get into Olds engines, but there is a guy who
>> contacted me here in Oz that IS interested.
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Peter,
>>>
>>> I would be interested in knowing myself.  I have an interest in them as 
>>> I
>>> have two early engines and for a few years anyway was recording serial
>>> numbers and trying to unravel their secrets - but by no way was/is it a
>>> register.  Olds engines are hard to date exactly as their are no factory
>>> details that have survived into preservation that I know of.  I've
>>> figured
>>> out that B prefixed Type A engines are the Olds Gas Power engines with
>>> the
>>> trumpet type carb. The early ones didn't have the B pre-fix - e.g. the
>>> engine featured in TOMM a months or so back was real early but probably
>>> not
>>> as old as that guy thinks.  The B pre fix engines run from 1905ish to
>>> 1910.
>>> After that they became Seager engines and had a serial number with a D
>>> pre
>>> fix.  I think the later Rumley engines may have had an F pre fix.  Some
>>> of
>>> this is straight from my memory. If a little bit of knowledge is
>>> dangerous -
>>> then thats me - so be warned!    Since maybe there is no register, you
>>> might
>>> be the man to start one - now that all bar one or two of the R&Vs on the
>>> planet have been accounted for.  What little information I have is 
>>> yours,
>>> incl. cattledogs, parts books etc.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>             Mike Young
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Peter Lowe" <plowe at exemail.com.au>
>>> To: "ATIS" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>; "Oldengine.org"
>>> <stationary-engine at oldengine.org>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:12 PM
>>> Subject: [SEL] Olds engine register
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone runnning an Olds Register???
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Peter Lowe
>>>> R&V Engine Registrar
>>>> Australia
>>>> http://www.oldengine.org/members/plowe/rv-engines/rvpage.htm
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