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Origin of Fordson 4 cylinder sidevalve engine

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T

06-17-2005 22:43:45




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When was the production of the Fordson 4 cylinder sidevalve engine started? The problem is: The village museum has a ditchdigger built by a local inventor in about 1915. The engine and the engine-supports have been missing for as long as anybody remember. The drawings are lost. The inventors son has heard that that it was a ford engine. We have a Fordson engine but is the type old enough? Or should it have been a T ford engine?

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ButchH

06-18-2005 19:10:57




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 Re: Origin of Fordson 4 cylinder sidevalve engine in reply to T, 06-17-2005 22:43:45  
Given the year and the fact that it was invented locally it would most surely have used a model T engine. The Fordson production started in 1917 and became available to the public in the US in 1918. The Fordson engine is much the same design as the model T except it is much larger. The cooling system is designed with an integrated cast radiator housing all of which is very heavy and large. If your unit still has a transmission or other power transmission device you might have a local model T expert look at it to determine If it would bolt up to a model T engine. Hope this helps you out.

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T

06-21-2005 10:26:58




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 Re: Origin of Fordson 4 cylinder sidevalve engine in reply to ButchH, 06-18-2005 19:10:57  
Further facts and questions
There are no remains of the clutch. The locally made open gearbox has lost a lot of parts so there is nothing except the startcrank and the avaiable space inside the frame that tells which motortype that will fit. The machine looks like a big tractor with the ditchdigger attached behindand and weighs about 2500kg = 5500 lb plus missing parts. The "tractor" looks a bit like those big ones with open frame that they used in USA at the time. Is a T ford motor really big enough for such a thing? What else could it have been? The tradition tells about an american motor. The inventor had been working for some years in Chicago before returning home to Finland

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cdmn

07-02-2005 22:33:40




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 Re: Origin of Fordson 4 cylinder sidevalve engine in reply to T, 06-21-2005 10:26:58  
Just a possibility. The Waukesha engine would have been very popular for this kind of project. They sold thousands and thousands of them for military trucks in 1917-1919, and certainly had them available in various forms before the war.(Model M). The Waukesha Engine Co., the “Motor Company,” ... began making tractor engines in 1910.



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