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

Monday, January 21, 2019

MARCO Power Station - Engine by NEW WAY

Marco Light and Power Corporation.
We are starting the 2019 year with another library document that may well be on the cusp of 100 years old. The 16 page document from Marco Light and Power Corporation, then a division of  The Marmon Chicago Company Inc., Chicago USA declares the virtue not only of their Power Station but also for the "New Way" engine that provided the power to drive the generator and charge a battery bank.

Document Details:

  • Extols virtues of Marco Power Station for the farmer / country resident. Shows the positive impacts that can be achieved in family life with their electric generator and associated battery bank.
    • Lighting
    • Home power for washing and ironing etc.
    • Harvesting
    • Etc
  • Emphasizes multiplicity of uses when using the engine to power other machinery
  • Emphasizes reliability by referencing use by armed services in WW1.
  • Aprox 9 pages refer directly to the New Way Engine and it's adaptability and uses. 
  • Specifications of both Engine and Generator / Battery Bank.
Marmon used New Way Motor Company engines to power their Power and Light Plants over some years after WW1. Promoted in their terms as "A CENTRAL POWER STATION FOR THE FARM" 

New Way Engines Used:
  • Series F New Way Engine - 4 H.P
  • Series CH New Way Engine - 2 to 5 H.P.

The Marco Power Station document is HERE in the library in the brochure group listed as Marco Power Station.

Enjoy
George


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