[SEL] The Stover/Cooper Connection

[Peter Lowe]

> Your Cooper engine #179889 is listed in the Stover shipping records as a 
> type KA, hit & miss governor (gasoline), with Wico mag. shipped to the 
> Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. Chicago IL. on July 13, 1926.  As a note, 42 
> identical engines were shipped to Flexible on June 29, 1926 and your 
> engine was in another group of 28 shipped on July 13, 1926.  Flexible 
> Shaft shipped many sheep shearers to Australia.  Flexible also shipped 
> Stover engines to Australia with a Stewart badge.  We know that Cooper 
> also got engines from Stover through the Coldwell Shipping Company, San 
> Francisco Ca.  I'm not sure how all this comes together.  Most rebadged 
> Stovers including Judson engines in Canada use the real Stover serial 
> number so they show up in the records.  If you don't mind, I'll put your 
> engine in the Stover registry.  All personal information is kept 
> confidential.
>
> Ron Wiley came to Freeport, IL. from Australia in July of 2006 to give us 
> a talk on Cooper/Stover engines at the Stover reunion.  I bet he can 
> answer many of your Cooper technical questions.  We also do a Stover 
> column in every issue of Gas Engine Magazine.  The most recent issue 
> covered the late K models including the KA.
>
> Best Regards,
> Joe


Hi Joe

Thanks you sir very much.
Please feel free to add my personal details to the register, if you need an 
address use this one:
Peter Lowe
Maclean
New South Wales
Australia

Can I use the information you gave me on my web site??

Kind regards
Peter