Stationary Engines

17 HP Fairbanks Morse
Year: 1941
Manufacturer: Fairbanks Morse
Model: Style C Self Oiling
Horsepower: 17 HP @ 400 RPM; 19 HP @ 450 RPM
Serial Number: 821490
Fuel: Gasoline; Kerosene/Water

Description: This engine was typical of the type of engine that the Alberta Wheat Pool would have used to power a grain elevator. The AWP would have run the engine on gasoline, but it could also burn kerosene with water injection.

It featured a fully enclosed crankcase and governor. It required a minimum 250 gallon tank of water for cooling, which was only circulated by convection or thermo-syphon. The engine also had a compression release to enable it to be hand started.

1 1/2 HP Empire
Year: circa 1920
Manufacturer: Empire
Horsepower: 1-1/2 HP @ 650 RPM
Serial Number: 113390
Fuel: Gasoline

Description: This engine was probably manufactured for Cockshutt. The governor was a flyball, hit-and-miss design. It had an open water hopper used for evaporative cooling. An engine of this type could have been used to pump water or to run equipment such as a fanning mill.

3 HP Fairbanks Morse
Year: Circa 1915
Make: Fairbanks Morse
Description: Open crankshaft
Serial Number: 381589

3 HP Hercules
Year: Circa 1920
Make: Hercules
Model: EK
Description: 475 RPM

Fuller Johnson Pump Jack Engine
Year: 1924
Manufacturer: Fuller Johnson
Serial Number: 118624
Description: Hit & Miss, single cylinder

2 HP Chapman
Year: Circa 1912
Make: Chapman
Manufactured: Dundas, Ontario, Canada
Governer: Hit and Miss
Fuel: Gasoline
Cylinders: 1
Serial Number: 13622
Description: Single cylinder, hit & miss. Vacuum operated fuel pump. Buzz coil ignition with spark plug. Enclosed crankcase.

6 HP Imperial
Year: Circa 1920
Make: Imperial
Serial Number: 159
Horsepower: 6
Governor: Hit & Miss
Ignition: Generator or battery, simple coil, igniter.
Cooling: Water, convection.
Fuel pump: Camshaft driven, positive displacement.

5 HP Nelson Brothers
Year: Circa 1916
Make: Nelson Brothers
Horsepower: 5 (approximately)
Governor: Throttle
Cylinders: 1
Fuel: Gasoline