Witte Gas Engine Serial Numbers

Witte Engine Information May/June 1989. As announced in the last issue of GEM, ownership of the Witte engine records has now been transferred to Midwest Old Threshers, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Serial number 2. Horsepower 3. A photograph (if at all possible) 4. Your $5.00 (U.S.) remittance. Continue Reading. Gas Engine Magazine is your best. Use the first one or two numbers to estimate the year of the engine. If there are four numbers, the engine was built before 2004 and the first digit is the last digit of the year. For example, 2 means the engine was built in 1982, 1992 or any year before 2004 that ends in two. You must estimate the decade.

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Interior view of the factory in Ava. In 1893, George D. Pohl went to the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. There he met Colonel William Ritchie of the Advance Manufacturing Co. Of Hamilton, Ohio, who was chairman of the committee on machinery and the designer of Hamilton gas engines. George became greatly interested in gas and gasoline engines as a result of this experience.

In 1894, he enlisted the help of an engineer named Henry Pokosney, originally from Vienna, Austria, then working for the Otto Gas Engine Works in Philadelphia, to help him design and manufacture internal combustion engines. Pohl and Pokosney either copied Ritchie's design for the Hamilton engine or at least were greatly influenced by it. This probably arose through an arrangement between Pohl and Ritchie’s company, the Advance Manufacturing Company.

The designs of Geo. Pohl and Hamilton engines were so similar that customers tried to order replacement parts for Hamilton engines through Pohl subsidiaries. The Pohl engines even adopted the 'Advance' name of the Ohio company. In addition to his engine shop, Pohl set up a foundry to cast parts for his engines.

Language: Russian. Condition: New. From United Kingdom to U.S.A. Razdatochnij material dlya doshkoljnikov po matematike 2. Seller Inventory # AAV410| 5. About this Item: Let Me Print, Russian Federation, 2012.

Thus the Geo. Pohl Manufacturing Company began the manufacture and sale of gasoline engines in the tiny crossroad town of Ava. Bartholomew, mayor of Vernon, New York, frequently traveled north to Lowville, and passed through Ava on his way. He observed the rapid early growth of the Geo. Co., and foresaw that such a growing enterprise could bring jobs and prosperity to his home town.