gasoline inboard engine

ENGINES
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Nixon, John F. Sr.; Eastern Malleable Iron
USA, CT, Naugatuck
1914
19.00 x 25.00 x 24.00

Single cylinder gasoline inboard engine; one of a kind, made by John F. Nixon from patterns (see 1996.3.2-48) made while a student at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1914; engine cast at Eastern Malleable Iron, Naugatuck, CT; in 1930s engine installed in plywood boat built by Nixon for the engine; boat used by his family on Lake Quassapaug, Middlebury, CT. Engine painted gray; brass builder's plate "Built by John F. Nixon, CIT, 1914."

1996.3.1