[SEL] The Stover/Cooper Connection

[Arnie Fero]

Brilliant response!  Joe, you are one helluva resource!!  Thanks for posting this.
See ya,  Arnie

On Thu, May 7, 2009 7:24 pm, Joe&Jewel Maurer wrote:
> 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.