ENGINE DEVELOPMENT - NEW WAY MOTOR COMPANY

HISTORY:
New Way Motor Company engine development, really sits on the inventive genius of C.H.Way and this is displayed as early as 1903 in his Engine patent US 776,708. While this engine appears not to have reached commercial production it does represent the genius of the man who was to go on to ensure the pioneering of Air Cooled engines for use on the farm and industry was highly successful.

ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT 

 The New Way Motor Company commenced production in a 100 ft long shed. Humble beginings!

Their first engines were called their "Standard" engine or the "S" Series. Over time this "S" series came to encompass vertical, horizontal and twin cylinder engines. These can be regarded as their heavy duty or industrial series of engines. 

This can be contrasted with their lighter duty horizontal single cylinder "Jewel" or J series engines and their Series F vertical cylinder engines tuoted because of light weight for binder engines. 

The Company used a THREE TIER STRUCTURE in the engineering classification of their engines. 

The overarching classification being "Series" followed by "Model" and finally "Type"

•  SERIES
• Series – A grouping of engines forming the "top tier" / level and may incorporate many “Models” and more than one “Type” of engine.  Different formats such as Vertical, Horizontal or Twin Cylinder may all be included within the one series.  
• MODEL
• Model – A Sub level of  series and related to the Horse Power of the engine.
• Research indicates that in earlier years of production New Way used sequential “ALPHA” Model coding to indicate when it’s development started. [Refer TABLE – Model Column]
• Applies to all different series engines until Hit Miss engines ceased to be included within the new model ranges.
• Model “A” through to Model “Z”. Each used only once across all series of engines. [Refer Table]
• With the LATER SERIES ENGINES [throttle governed engines], this all changed, with the same model identifier used in all series engines. (eg Series F Model “D” and Series A Model “D” etc.) 
•  TYPE
• Type – As used by New Way related to the Technology and Engineering development employed in an engine.
• Technological and engineering advancement meant a model over time was built as different versions, defined by type.  Eg Type “C” to Type “F”
• Model [H.P.] did not change but the type did.
• Example - Some Series M engines were Type C (Hit Miss governed) and later Series M engines being throttle governed were Type F.
• TYPE A and B – Likely pre-commercial production engines such as patented by C.H. Way where valves were on opposite sides of cylinder. ( U.S. Patent 776708 applies) Refer Patent Drawing at start of article
• TYPE C - Intake and Exhaust valves - top and bottom of port in line on all Type “C” engines whether horizontal or vertical.
• TYPE D –Intake & Exhaust valves - both on top of cylinder –(linked to Exhaust Rocker?)
• TYPE E – Unclear defining development – (linked to Exhaust Rocker?)
• TYPE F – Flywheel Governor - Throttle governed engines
• TYPE H – Gear Driven Governor - Throttle governed engines 

The following table presents the New Way Motor Company engine classification TIER STRUCTURE in pictorial form.

The second column beige section shows there was only one model descriptor used for all series engines up until the new series engines that no longer included any Hit-Miss option. 

The blue and green shaded cells show how, from that time on, the model descriptor is reused across an engine series.

Series	Model	H.P.	Type	Feature	Tech. Advance	Sales ** Sub/Type
S	A	3.5	C	H.M.Fly
S	B	7.0	C	H.M.Fly
S	B1	7.0	E	H.M.Fly+
S	C	2.5	C	H.M.Fly
S	D	6.0	D	H.M.Fly+
S	E	4.5	C	H.M.Fly
J	F	3.0	C	H.M.Fly
J	G	4.0	C	H.M.Fly
S	H	6.0	C	H.M.Fly
S	J	8.0	C	H.M.Fly
S	J	8.0	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle
M	K	2.0	C	H.M.Fly
M	K	2.0	C	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	K	2.0	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
S	L	12.0	C	H.M.Fly
S	L	12.0	D	H.M.Fly+
S	L	12.0	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle
M	M	3.0	C	H.M.Fly
M	M	3.0	C	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	M	3.0	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
J	N	1.5	C	H.M.Fly
J	O	2.5	C	H.M.Fly
M	P	2.5	C	H.M.Fly
M	P	2.5	C	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	P	2.5	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	R	4.0	C	H.M.Fly
M	R	4.0	C	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	R	4.0	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	S	1.5	C	H.M.Fly
M	S	1.5	C	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	S	1.5	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
J	T	3.5	C	H.M.Fly
M	U	3.5	C	H.M.Fly
M	U	3.5	C	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	U	3.5	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
J	V	6.0	C	H.M.Fly
M	W	6.0	C	H.M.Fly
M	W	6.0	C	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
M	W	6.0	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle	K
J	Z	1.0	C	H.M.Fly
F	A	6.0	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle
F	C	4.5	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle
F	D	4.0	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle
F	E	7.5	F	T.G.Fly	Throttle
A	B	3.0	H	T.G.G	Geared Gov.
A	C	5.0	H	T.G.G	Geared Gov.
A	D	8.0	H	T.G.G	Geared Gov.
A	E	8.0	H	T.G.G	Geared Gov.
A	G	10.0	H	T.G.G	Geared Gov.

Feature Column Abbreviations:

H.M.Fly - Hit Miss Engine - Flywheel Governor
T.G.Fly - Throttle Governed Engine - Flywheel Governor
T.G.G - Throttle Governed Engine - Gear driven Governor

TABLE NOTES:

*  New Way J Series 5.5 H.P engines were advertised but do not appear in instruction manuals to define it's model . Consequently, given the era it is probable they were a Model “X or Y” as they are the only legitimate gaps in the model table. (Given I and Q are often not used because of recognition confusion with L and O)

** New Way Sales Brochures give an additional Type for kerosene engines (K) which for the sake of clarity is regarded as a sub type as against standard engineering type classifications. 

Series “M” engines – Early throttle governed Series "M" engines were still designated as Type”C” but later adopted the Type “F” standard designation for throttle governed engines. Instruction manual documentation in essence reflects this with only the early version cylinders with bolt on intakes being shown and not the combined cylinder / intake casting as used on later “M” series engines.

The table shows the 3 "TYPE" possibilities for each Model/HP. These are gasoline Hit Miss, Kero Type "C" and Kero Type "F".

Fathoming the depths.

George