New Way Stationary Engines

Aim - To serve and support the New Way Stationary Engine restoration community.
There was a New Way Stationary Motor inclined to Hit and Miss. It was designed that way but intermittently it would missfire and this in the confines of the beekeepers shed fired my imagination, grabbing my senses. I just loved the sound of the New Way 3.5Hp working - likely fuelled by a too rich mixture.
With each missfire came the tell tale puff of blue smoke and via the old sawbench, the beekeeping manufacturing business was underway, alive and well. Alf was in his element. Romance, nah, hard work but Hoots the New Way went a long way in firing the imagination of times past running in the present. The present, after all, that's where life is, it's not in the past, but romancing the past, that's the present if you're living it.
The priveledge of life. Present and past is now!!! - alive.

Ye Olde Sawbench & New Way Motor kept company by Howard Rotary Hoes

Thursday, August 19, 2010

New Way Engine Ignition Systems

The New Way Motor Company optioned the ignition systems on many of their motors. Like todays vehicles prices varied according to the option selected.
Options Included:
  • Battery ignition and utilising Buzz Coil
  • Friction Magneto - A low voltage magneto that may be set up in leiu of or in addition to batteries to feed the coil for the high tension spark.
  • Bosch High Tension Magneto
  • National high tension magneto
Magneto drive trains included use of
  • Chain and Sprocket drive
  • Gear Drive
Slotted holes in the drive Gear/Sprocket mounted on the magneto (if fitted) will allow a fine timing adjustment once the correct gear meshing or correct chain and sprocket relationship has been established.

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