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, July 13, 2019

"New-Way" Engines employed to power Proprietary Plant

Using a New Way powered Power Plant.
The New Way Motor company promoted their engines for a multitude of uses obviously supported by a host of 3rd party manufacturing companies utilizing New Way engines in their equipment. This was especially true of specialized farm equipment where New Way Engines were used to power many proprietary machines in lieu of or in addition to horses.

"NEW WAY" ADVANTAGE
The New Way Motor company produced high quality engines, to very fine tolerances with production certainly adapted to technological and mechanical advancement. It can readily be claimed that they were at the forefront of much in engine development with engines highly suited and adaptable for many uses both on the farm and in industry. Their engines were extremely reliable, easily maintained and consequently ideally suited to a social environment just moving into the age of the internal combustion engine. An example of this progression is seen where they quickly advanced from "Buzz Coil" ignition to H.T. Magneto ignition provided by companies such as Bosch or National.

WHY USE A NEW WAY

  • Air Cooled - 
    • No Spill-able water in hoppers or tanks. A great advantage especially where the engine was portable and on the move.
    • No water to freeze overnight etc
  •  Light Weight - 
    • Without water the engines were highly suitable especially for farm work on the move.
  • Reliable
    • Optioned for use of up to the minute ignition systems
    • Fitted with automobile style carburetors. (Mid 1900 teens onward)
    • Easily Maintained
  • Modern Engineering 
    • Balanced Engines to eliminate vibration
    • Throttle Governed engines (Mid 1900 teens onward)
      • Allowed for fine rev control
    • Advanced quickly, soon providing good power to weight ratio with model advancement.
FORM and FUNCTION

  • Functioning ranged widely, finding use in major fields such as Harvesting Machinery, Portable Tools, Traction Outfits, Lighting Plants, Construction Equipment and Stationary works.
SPECIFIC USES:

  1. INDUSTRY
    1. Air Compressors
    2. Bar Benders
    3. Building Hoists
    4. Blowers
    5. Centrifugal Pumps
    6. Conveying Machines
    7. Belt Conveyors
    8. Diaphragm Pumps
    9. Dough Mixers
    10. Electric Generators
    11. Flood Lighting
    12. Floor Surfacers
    13. Flushing Machines
    14. Mastic Mixers
    15. Mortar Mixers
    16. Motion Picture Machines
    17. Paint Sprayers
    18. Refrigerating Plants
    19. Rotary Pumps
    20. Saw Tables
    21. Search Lighting 
    22. Shop Line Shafts
  2. ROAD BUILDING
    1. Asphalt Spreaders
    2. Back Fillers
    3. Concrete Mixers
    4. Heavy Duty Pumps
    5. Road Surfacers
    6. Tamping Machines
  3. FARMING
    1. Artesian Bore Drills
    2. Bagging Machines
    3. Battery Charging
    4. Binders
    5. Chaff Cutting
    6. Corn Binders
    7. Corn Pickers
    8. Corn Shellers
    9. Dairy Machinery
    10. Drag Saws
    11. Farm Lighting
    12. Feed Grinders
    13. Garden Tractors
    14. Generating Sets
    15. Grain Binders
    16. Hay Balers
    17. Hay Hoists
    18. Hemp Harvesters
    19. Huskers
    20. Lawn Mowers
    21. Milking Machines
    22. Orchard Sprayers
    23. Pole Saws
    24. Potato Diggers
    25. Power Cultivators
    26. Pump Jacks
    27. Push Binder
    28. Rice Binders
    29. Shock Loaders
    30. Silo Fillers
    31. Stump Pullers
    32. Threshers
    33. Unloaders
    34. Water Systems
    35. Wagon Loaders
    36. Well Drills
  4. SHIPPING
    1. Bilge Pumps
    2. Small Motor Boats
    3. Schooner Hoists
    4. Wharf Hoists
  5. RAILWAYS
    1. Section Cars
  6. FORESTRY LOGGING
    1. Docking Saws - Logs cut to length for logging flumes.
Most of these uses are contained within New Way documentation else they are established uses for their engines in some cases developed by New Way Agents. 
Examples:
  • New Way Milking Machines of W.A. Preston in Brisbane, Australia.
  • Artesian Bore, Boring Plants by Horwoods of South Australia, Australia. Used for drilling bores many hundreds of feet deep in Australia's Artesian Basin.
Prominent examples of New Way Powered plant still existing today such as Centaur Tractors and Marco Lighting Plant from the Marmon Company of Chicago. 

As can readily be seen the uses for the New Way Engine is only limited by the imagination of the user.

Many New Ways
George

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