From:Gene Harper e-mail:gharperxman@excite.com
Subject:RE: RE: RE: RE: Aircraft manufacture - Lawrance engine contract Date:Wed Sep 10 23:48:03 2014
Response to:5358
Those photos and many more were part of a book put together
by Schwinn after they closed in 1931. The purpose of the
book was to show the manufacturing capability of the
factory. EVERYTHING was for sale and there were pages and
pages listing every piece of machinery, details of the
factory building itself, photos of the motorcycle production
days as well as the Penguin airplane engine project. Many
of these pictures were used in the 1916 Factory Tour book
that Charlie Carter reproduced back in the 80's.

Gene

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Marvellous photos Gene, thanks for those, far more than we
hoped might exist.

Do we know the history of how these photos come to be.
Some sort of interest in aviation or military ?



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Indeed, The Excelsior factory was engaged in making these
engines during the war as well as at least a cursory test
run
on one of the upper floors of the factory. I have a few
pictures of the engine manufacturing process and testing
facility. I'll post them for you. Pretty interesting stuff!

Gene