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'Can someone please identify what type ignition system my 2 HP Economy takes? (see photo in Wanted, page 65 of May-June GEM). Also need help timing my Ottawa log saw. I can't find timing marks on gears and I don't know if the push rod adjustments are critical. This Ottawa has a strange extra note in the exhaust, possibly overlap. I've spent hours and can't make it run like a 4 cycle. Description of log saw in ad also.' If you have the answers, please write RICHARD FENLEY, 110 F Street, Port Town-send, Washington 98368.

A. L. McBANE, Route 1, Box 225, Snow Camp, North Carolina 27349 writes us: 'I have recently acquired a piece of iron that I haven't seen before and I need any information I can get. It is a Centaur 2-G made by the Central Tractor Company, Greenwich, Ohio USA, S/N 327288. This information is on gear box and also name is on radiator. Chain drive from gear box to differential unit built on left front drive wheel. Engine is a 2 cylinder Le-Roi S/N 61599,31/8' bore. No HP is listed. Picture shows the unit with engine and radiator removed. It is badly worn and I have a way to go to put it in operation but I'm working on it.' (He'll be waiting for your replies.)

'I'm looking for information about an old marine engine that I picked up a number of years ago. It is a Reid. It was built at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, about 1896. It is definitely a marine type engine. I have had discussions with several folks and know that Reid engines were used for the oilfield pumping in western Penna. and in Tulsa, Oklahoma. My question is really about Reid, of Hamilton...I'd love to receive information (copies of originals) about the Reid marine motors!' The above note comes from RIGGS A. SMITH, Marine Historian, 346 Janice Street, Endicott, New York 13760.

TERRY KING, R.R. 2, Box 229, Rising Sun, Indiana 47040 sends this: 'I have a Delco water pump that I hope somebody can give me information on. It has a Deming pump motor on it and was made in 1953, S/N 1-53, Model #A8170. There must be someone who has one about the same. Would appreciate hearing from you.'

'Have engine, need information!' says NORMAN B. MYCES, 1 Buckingham Drive, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 17201. 717-263-4298. 'Railroad section car engine-Sheffield, 2 cylinder, 2 cycle horizontal air-cooled. No name tag, only numbers other than casting numbers are stamped into front of engine 19073. Originally the wheels of the car acted as the flywheels of the engine. Since I was only able to acquire one wheel, I had to adapt a set of flywheels to the axle shaft in order to run the engine. Who built these engines? How old is it? And are there many in existence?'

A man with a lot of questions is MARLIN DAVIS, Box 72, Salem, South Dakota 57058: 'I enjoy your magazine very much. I've been collecting engines long enough to know the garage isn't as large as I thought.