[SEL] unknown engine

[Mark Shulaw]

Well that certainly makes sense. If you are poor but inventive and 
you need an engine,  you pick up one with broken flywheels for 
whatever reason and glob on whatever you can scrounge up to make it work.
The back ground looks like the typical VA, W.VA and NC farm land of 
the period. Striped bare of even the flimsiest of tree or bush and 
farmed to death.
Lot of people do not realize that the eastern areas like that were 
stripped bare for as far as the eye could see and farmed to death. 
What we see today as tree filled verdant woods was less then a 
hundred years ago bald as a billiard ball.     TTYL,   Mark


>
>My wife's people were all very mechanically inclined.  Known in the  area
>to be able to fix steam engines, make tractors from automobile parts,  take
>several junk cars and put them together to make a jalopy, etc. Knowing  that,
>it is no telling what they have done to the engine in the photo to make  it
>workable.  We know it is her grandfather and possibly her brother who  died
>as a young child in the photo.
>
>Tom  Schmutz
>Concord, Va.
>germoamer at aol.com
>
>
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Mark Shulaw
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USA

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