11/7/2022 0 Comments Satisfactory tractor![]() ![]() As the Abenaque Gasoline Traction Engine booklet says, ‘Abenaque gas and gasoline engines are made in sizes of from 2-25 H.P., of several different types, and, we believe, are adapted to more varied applications than any other one make of engine at present on the market. Using Ostenberg’s plans, the engines were manufactured in sizes ranging from two hp through 25 hp. Ostenberg described his engine and hinted at how it was named in his patent application: ‘The invention is preferably embodied in what is known as a four cycle engine in which every other stroke is idle, the return of the piston serving to compress the air and gas before the explosion takes place …’ He also invent ed a circuit-breaker to be used as an igniting device for the engine, a separate invention for improved construction for inlet and exhaust ports in the engine, as well as an improved water jacket for stationary gasoline engines. The most important was for an ‘explosion,’ or gasoline (or as they spelled it, ‘gasoline’) engine. Ostenberg’s moving doesn’t seem to have affected Abenaque Machine Works a great deal, in part because he had already applied for five patents – all of which were approved and assigned to Gilbert’s name, from 1898-1903. However, Gilbert and Ostenberg must not have gotten along, because before the five years were up, John Ostenberg moved to San Jose, California, where he opened the Ostenberg Manufacturing Company. He convinced John Ostenberg, who was working in the Des Moines, Iowa, business of Frederick’s father, to move to Westminster Station, and sign a five-year contract at $1,000 a year to create inventions for the new business. Instead, he signed up an inventor for his new machine business. Rumor had it he was building a corn-starch factory, as he had previously been in the starch business, and his new buildings were near the corn canning factory. Gilbert simply backed the horse and wagon to the door (of the bank) and unloaded the containers.’ A curious method of making a deposit, and the curious beginning to the interesting history of the Abenaque tractor.īy the middle of 1893, Frederick was constructing the buildings that would house the Abenaque Machine Works. So in 1893, Frederick Gilbert and his family ‘packed their belongings,’ say Haas and Caggiano, ‘including all their money, gold and jewelry, in barrels.’ The barrels were then transported by a team of horses and a wagon to a bank in Keene, N.H., where, Haas and Caggiano write, ‘Mr. Frederick Gilbert had been so impressed by the Westminster-Walpole area that he chose to build his home there. ![]() ![]() But the time spent in the area had been fruitful. On the way back, the party stopped and discovered the horse had died. The horse was left in his care and a replacement purchased.’ ‘A good man across the Connecticut River in Walpole (N. ‘They stopped in Westminster, Vt., to seek aid,’ write Patricia A. Gilbert, was traveling in a party of six in the late 1880s headed to Portland, Maine, when one of the horses developed pink eye. The founder of the Abenaque Machine Works, Frederick M. ![]()
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