[AT] Re:Massy-Harris 44

[charlie hill]

Back in the early '80's we (company I worked for) had some 400 amp portable
welding machines that were gasoline powered.  If my memory is correct that
is the engine that ran them.  We called them Continental Red Seal engines.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LeRoy Price III" <leroy_price3 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Re:Massy-Harris 44


> Don,
>
> I didn't realize the Super Hurricane in the Willys was a Continental
engine
> but I found the
> following:
>
> The 226 engine started out as the Continental first used in passenger cars
> in the late 1920s. The engine was used in the Graham-Paige automobile
until
> about WW-II. Joseph Fraser, the president of Graham-paige made a deal with
> Henry Kaiser, forming the Kaiser-Fraser company after the war and the
engine
> went into Kaiser automobiles as well as the Aero Willys of 1954-55.
> Additionally, the engine found its way into Checker Cabs and various
> industrial applications into the 1970s. When the Kaiser-owned Willys
Motors
> needed a 6-cylinder engine for its trucks and wagons, the 226 was an
> "off-the-shelf" option. (This is a simplified account. For a more detailed
> history, see Dick Datsun's, "The Total Performance Jeep
>
> Appears it was used in some other things....
>
> LeRoy
>
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