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

Saturday, April 22, 2017

New Way Motor Company - Early Engine Colors

NEW WAY LIVERY - Yes it's uniform.

New Way Motor Company had 2 flagship colors for the main engine body and flywheels and shroud of it's early models of engine. These were a deep red and green. In addition the intricate Cylinder castings were painted silver and company promotional lettering such as around the perimeter of the flywheel/s was painted in a deep yellow to gold color.

DECORATIVE ARTWORK
Engines were shipped well decorated with the likes of flowers on the crankcase. This applied to both the vertical and Horizontal engines. Flowers were generally depicted with leaves and white petals set on greenish stems. On vertical engines this display could be seen on the lower crankcase as well as forming a decorative border around the brass ID plate on the upper half of the crankcase.

I expect the decorative flowers touch was an effort to appeal to the farmer's wife should she be using the engine to drive a washing machine or the like in the home.

MAIN ENGINE COLORS

  • GREEN - Original, Dupont/ Dulux Olive Green 93-29609H
    • Color matched in Australia Using Dulux Metalshield QD (Quick Dry) Enamel Clear base with their Industrial Tinters the following 1 Litre formulae is a good match.
      • LB - 14.75
      • MY - 118
      • PG - 18.25
      • TW - 16.5
      • YO - 5.5
      • BU - 2.5
  • RED - Original, Dupont / Dulux  Burgundy Red 93-30420H 
    • Color matched in Australia Using Dulux Metalshield QD (Quick Dry) Enamel Clear Base with their Industrial Tinters the following 1 Litre formulae is a good match.
      • QR - 74
      • QV - 13
      • RO - 19
      • TW - 3.5
NOTE: The same colors should also be able to be achieved with Dulux Metalshield Premium enamel also using the Clear base combined with the Industrial Tinters.

Both the QD and the Premium have very good color retention in sunlight etc.

Color My World
George

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