Can you identify this 'F' engine?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 6:18 pm
I've just read John's comments on the site about scarcity of 'F' engine codes. I've just turned up another one (photo - 400K) on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, that had belonged to my father. The engine code on the block looks like this:
or see this photo (200K) of the number.
According to the engine-number tables, an 'F' would be a Forty Featherweight, but this one doesn't quite look like the site's picture of the 45 (i.e., this engine has a propeller with 4 rectangular blades, vs 3 round blades in the site photo, exposed flywheel with starter cord notches instead of the apparently enclosed flywheel in the site photo). The date code doesn't seem match any of the date descriptions, either.
I'd appreciate any insights into it's description or manufacture date.
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I490DI
According to the engine-number tables, an 'F' would be a Forty Featherweight, but this one doesn't quite look like the site's picture of the 45 (i.e., this engine has a propeller with 4 rectangular blades, vs 3 round blades in the site photo, exposed flywheel with starter cord notches instead of the apparently enclosed flywheel in the site photo). The date code doesn't seem match any of the date descriptions, either.
I'd appreciate any insights into it's description or manufacture date.