Item description for (1894) CATALOGUE of Marine Engines Launches Globe Gas Engine Co Philadelphia PA

Modern Catalog, reproduced from the original trade sample advertisement.

Company/Creator:

Globe Gas Engine Company,
-- Philadelphia Pennsylvania,

Catalogue Title:

       1894 Catalogue of Marine Engines and Launches : The Globe Gas Engine Company,
                Manufacturers of Pacific Gasoline Engines and Launches, Regan Vapor Engines
                and Launches, Union Gas and Gasoline Engines

Details about this publication:

      Replica of the 1893/1894 original trade samples catalog fine ready-made Gasoline Engines for marine applications.
           -- 32 pages, in very good, like new condition. Glossy, flex covers, cloth binding, a sturdy book.
           -- Replica/reprint published by Portable Trunk Publishers. (undated, modern edition) 2010.

Profusely illustrated with trade samples from the era. Thoroughly engaging.

A delightful look into internal combustion engines for boats and ships. Shows models, features of the various engines. This is the type of catalog that marine supply warehouses, wholesalers, and jobbers would make their purchases from.

Ideal catalog for collectors, designers, restorers, engineers, machines, mechanics or antiques dealers of finely made marine gas engines produced in America over 100 years ago. Including the famous "Union" engine.

Perfect guide for collectors, designers, restorers, period prop departments or antiques dealers of hand crafted engines.

About the company:

The combination of the Pacific and Regan companies, gave birth to the Union engine, as the resulting standard form for stationary motor work. Designed by Messrs. Daly and Barrett in '92, it is of horizontal type from 6 to 25 H. P., using the Otto cycle and poppet valves. The electric ignition has a “wiping" action, operated not by a point on the piston, as in the Pacific, but by external cam driver rods and arms giving an oscillating motion to the electrodes to make and break contact. The governing in this engine and in the Pacific is by an action that closing the admission, opens the exhaust, allowing the engine to run on free atmospheric pressure in the cylinder, until the gradual return to speed, restores normal feed. This conduces to economy as the minimum friction thus obtained enables the longest running before a fresh charge of gas is required. This engine is handled by the Globe Gas Engine Company, in the East, of 22 South 15th St., Phila., and to summarize regarding this Company, it may be said that it now controls the Regan, the Pacific, and the Union forms of engines, under some 17 or more patents. The Regan form is no longer built. The “Pacific" covers-small vertical powers and boat propulsion; the Union, the horizontal form for stationary ordinary motor purposes. All these engines use gas or gasoline as necessary, and the claim of the makers is that they put out an engine in efficiency and mechanical workmanship, second to none. It is stated that a total of some 1,600 Of the several forms above have been placed, aggregating 10,000 H. P., mostly so far, in Pacific territory. The headquarters there are the Union Gas Engine Co., 221 First St., San Francisco. -- Source: Vintage machinery org --

Soft cover, paperback edition in very good condition, with typical slight wear to edges and spine from being moved around the shop, stored flat.

Firmly readable, ideal for reference and collecting.   Very nice.
            Clean Text. Very Good condition. Text is in English.
            Reproduced directly from the original. -- We are not selling the original in this listing.

-- Defects: None found. **Some of the text is small, so it may be a little hard to read.

Modern, undated replica. -- Facsimile edition

Enjoy!

Location: from inventory, Globe Gas engines 1893/94