This engine (serial #BW-5995) was made by International Harvester Company in Chicago, Illinois. The company made 103,195 of these Type M 3 HP engines during the engine's 1918 to 1937 production run. This 3 HP Type M engine at Stuhr Museum was rated at 600 RPM, and was reportedly used near Gresham, Nebraska, a village in York County, about 70 miles east of Grand Island.
One of the largest farm implement manufacturers in the world since its creation in 1902, International Harvester Company made several items in Stuhr Museum's exhibit, including four engines, three tractors, a binder, and two reapers. I. H. C. continued to be a dominant farm implement company after the period in which it made all of Stuhr's items. I. H. C. exists today as Case-IH, a company created in 1984 by the merger of the J. I. Case Company, which was owned by Tenneco at the time, and the farm implement division of International Harvester which Tenneco purchased.
If you look on the left side of this engine, you might notice that it has a Wico Type EK Magneto (#105739) made by the Wico Electric Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. This ignition system has a series of patent dates stamped onto its name plate. These patents are patent 1307343, dated June 24, 1919, which you can view as a pdf here; patent 1335119, dated March 30, 1920, which you can view here; patent 1488975, dated April 1, 1924, which you can view here; patent 1489382, dated April 8, 1924, which you can view here; and patent 1490171, dated April 15, 1924, which you can view here.
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| From Oil Field Engineering, vol.XXIII, no.5 (May, 1921) |
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