The only book to examine the development of early marine engines with a focus on the two-cycle machines popular in the Midwest, New England, and Canada. Covers history of key companies, biographies of inventors, techonology, construction methods, material on collecting and retoring, and a list of about 800 companies throughout the U.S. and Canada that once built marine engines. This is the latest, updated of a classic title first published in 1982. Ongoing response to this book led the author to undertake a four-year project that led to the two-volume Engines Afloat, from Early Days to D-Day, which will be published in the spring of 1999.
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"Grayson writes for the layman but supplements his book with ilustrations and diagrams that should staisfy the most technical-minded." -- Maine Sunday Telegram
"Old Marine Engines is a remarkable book, not to be read through once and put aside but to be kept handy for frequent short glimpses of how things were." -- National Fisherman
"Old Marine Engines is a remarkable book, not to be read through once and put aside but to be kept handy for frequent short glimpses of how things were." -- National Fisherman
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"Old Marine Engines is a fine remembrance of the coming of power, and of the men who brought it . . . We won't see the likes of the engines of the men again."
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