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Showing posts with label Briggs and Stratton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Briggs and Stratton. Show all posts
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Sunday, March 20, 2022
there comes a time, for a few, when they decide it's time to quit collecting and sell off the museum full of stuff they've spent a life time acquiring. Of course, others are "going to restore it someday". Here's a museum in the Netherlands that was just auctioned off
Sure, there's a lot of the usual stuff... but I'm bored of looking at the usual normal stuff. So here's some of the interesting stuff instead:
a Briggs and Stratton made to power an outboard!
A ship's whistle! Hand crank on the other side
Monday, January 03, 2022
The cheapest production car in history: The Briggs & Stratton Auto Red Bug
the most thorough article and gallery I've ever seen on this is at:
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Thursday, August 06, 2020
Briggs and Stratton was in business for 112 years... so how are they in such a situation, as to file for bankruptcy? Catering to shareholders, instead of to the business
Briggs and Stratton, the world's largest producer of gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment, an American Fortune 1000 manufacturer of gasoline engines with headquarters in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
Engine production averages 10 million units per year as of April 2015.
The company never drove the kind of transformative innovation that could have helped it grow beyond the reach of the challenges it is facing.
Todd Teske, Briggs’ chairman, president and CEO, and his board of directors, made the fateful decision to continue providing returns to shareholders rather than plowing money into new product development.
Briggs has spent $167 million on research and development but $239 million on share repurchases since its 2012 fiscal year, according to securities filings.
According to Wamboldt, external factors that walloped Briggs included:
Rising steel and aluminum prices;
a decline in brick and mortar sales;
extremely unfavorable weather patterns that disrupted seasonal sales;
a bankruptcy filing by Sears, Briggs’ largest customer;
the trade war with China
Briggs and Stratton agreed in its bankruptcy filing to sell all of its assets to a New York private equity firm for about $550 million.
So, I'm guessing the CEO and board of directors will profit handsomely, have a golden parachute, and walk away into retirement. All for running a company into the dirt, and being greedy
https://biztimes.com/viewpoints-lack-of-innovation-explains-collapse-of-briggs-stratton/
Sunday, September 08, 2019
The Alan and Marcella Schurman Iron Ranch is a lifetime collection of thousands of tractors, engines, trucks, parts, signs, toys, farm antiques and other odd stuff like a steam donkey, a steam engine clock, and a Plymouth train engine (thanks Doug!)
Vehicles
1922 Stanley Steamer Model 735
Avery Truck with correct Rutenber engine
Cartercar Model R Coupe
Case Touring Car
Mack AB Truck with “Gar-wood” Hoist/Dump Box
Samson Delivery Truck
Samson Truck
International Auto-Buggy
‘Jumbo’ Truck;
1920 White Truck;
1931 Ford Model A;
1933 Ford V8 Sedan;
1934 Ford V8 Sedan;
Briggs and Stratton ‘Speedster’;
Brush Car; Cushman Truckster;
Demartini Truck;
Diamond T Model 306 Truck;
Early 4 Seat Horse Drawn Carriage;
Fairmont Ride On Railcar;
Ford Model A Coupe;
(4)Ford Model A Truck;
Ford Model T Coupe;
Ford Model T Fire Truck;
Ford Model T Truck;
(3) Kleiber Truck;
Studebaker Coupe
Tractors
Allwork 14-28 Model C Aultman-Taylor 30-60 Bates Steel Mule Model B Bean Spray Pump Co. Tracto Best 25 Crawler (2) Best 30 Crawlers Best 30 Chassis Best 60 Tailseat Case 12-20 Crossmotor Case 15-27 Emerson Brantingham AA 12-20 Fair-Mor 12-25 Tractor Heider 9-18 Model D Holt 75 Holt Armored Military 5 Ton PLUS 3 Additional Chassis International 8-16 Mogul Holt Military 5 Ton Chassis Monarch 20-12 Neverslip Crawler Parrett H or E 12-25 Plymouth Locomotive Rumely 12-20 Rumely 15-25 L Rumely 15-30 F Samson Iron Horse Line Drive (2) Sawyer-Massey 11-22
Steam Traction Engines Case Center Crank Steam Engine; 22hp Minneapolis Traction Engine; Russell 16hp Traction Engine; Russell 8hp Portable Steam Engine
Other Great Tractors
Case L; Case Terramatic Drive;
Caterpilar 2 Ton;
Caterpillar Small Fifteen;
Caterpillar Fifteen;
Caterpillar D5;
Caterpillar High Ten;
Caterpillar Sixty;
Caterpillar Tailseat Thirty;
(3)Caterpillar Ten; (3) Caterpillar Thirty;
(2)Caterpillar Twenty;
Caterpillar Twenty Eight;
Caterpillar Twenty Two;
Cletrac BGH; Cletrac E 38”; Cletrac F; Cletrac F Chassis; (3)Cletrac Model K; Ferguson; (3)Fordson; Fordson Half Track Conversion; Fordson Track Conversion with Winch; Fordson Wehr One Man Power Grader; Fordson with Shovel Conversion;
Fordson with Solid Cast Front Wheels;
Fordson with Williamette Winch; Gibson Model D; Graham-Bradley Tricycle Tractor;
John Deere 420 Crawler;
John Deere AR;
John Deere BO;
John Deere D;
John Deere Styled G with Wide Front;
(2) John Deere Unstyled D;
McCormick Deering 0-12; Oliver Hart Parr 70; Oliver Hart Parr 70 Orchard; Prescott Tractor conversion; Samson Model M; Silver King Standard; Silver King Tricycle; Thieman Tractor; Vaughn Flex-Tread Walk Behind; Windolph Crawler Tractor
Engines
Corliss 600hp Steam Engine
Foos 8hp Hopper Cooled Disc Crank
International 8hp Famous Winch Engine
HUGE Steam Donkey
Howell 4.5hp Side Shaft
Hall-Scott #175 6 cylinder Engine
Harris 25-30 Stationary Engine
Samson 1.5hp Side Shaft Tank Cooled
Sieverkropp 1 cylinder Horizontal
Sieverkropp Vertical
Stickney 1.75hp
1948 Fairbanks 225hp 4 Cylinder Diesel Engine with Generator; Ames Iron Works Steam Engine with Genset; Associated 1.75hp Hired Man; Associated 8hp Portable; Assoicated 2.25hp Hired Hand; Atlas; Imperial 75hp Stationary Engine; Buffalo 2hp; Climax R41 4 Cylinder Stationary Engine; Cushman 4hp Binder Engine; Detroit 1 cylinder Vertical; Eclipse Pumping Engine with Fairbanks Pump; Economy 1.5hp; Economy 1.75hp E; Empire 7hp; Fairbanks 2hp Z; Fairbanks 3hp with Fleck Pump; Foos Type J 1-2hp; Fuller and Johnson 1.5hp; Fuller and Johnson Engine with Meyers Pump; General Electric Genset; (2) Gray 1hp; International 1hp Titan; International 1hp Tom Thumb; International 6hp Hopper Cooled Famous; John Deere 1.hp E; John Deere 3hp E; Large 12 Cylinder Industrial Engine; Monitor VJ Pumping Engine with Baker Pump; New Way 3.5hp Model A; Page Cream Separator with Gas Engine; Regal Boat Motor Enge; Reid 12hp Engine; Sandow Vertical; Standard 3-4hp Gas Engine; Standard Air Cooled Vertical; Stover 1.5hp
Steam Engines
English Iron Works Stationary Steam Engine;
Ericsson 8” Hot Air;
Erie City Engine Works Stationary Steam Engine;
Houston, Standard, and Gamble Stationary Steam Engine;
Jewell #2 Stationary Steam Engine; Reliable Stationary Steam Engine;
Worthington 8x10 Stationary Steam Engine
https://www.aumannauctions.com/project/details/45913
even a Thickstun intake with a pair of Stromberg 97s
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Friday, August 24, 2018
Thursday, July 05, 2012
some cool photos from some of my favorite sites
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Comedic use of automobiles in silent movies
Above Buster Keaton enacts a common concept that a Model T had to be put down like a horse when it's useful life was over, because like a horse, it was all give and no take, all heart.
1929 and 1924
the wheel chair has an attached power wheel, looks like something I just watched on the History channel show "American Pickers" an interesting show I like to try to catch. Also similar to the Briggs and Stratton motor wheel For a timeline of power wheels and powered bicycles: http://www.mopedarmy.com/wiki/Motorized_Bicycle
Photos via: http://fantomatik75.blogspot.com/
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Briggs and Stratton Flyer buckboard and motor wheel
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1631935880418477/
above via: http://www.sportschrono.com/ and some history on it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Flyer is that the Smith Flyer was bought by Briggs and Stratton. The Smith Flyer was an automobile manufactured by the A.O. Smith Company in Milwaukee from 1915 until about 1919 when the manufacturing rights were sold to Briggs & Stratton and it was renamed to Briggs & Stratton Flyer. The Smith Flyer is a small, simple, lightweight, two-seat vehicle with a wooden frame that doubles as the body and as the suspension. A small gasoline engine is mounted on a fifth wheel, or motor wheel, to drive the Flyer.
I didn't know the whole ensemble was called the Briggs and Stratton Flyer buckboard
I've posted about this before, But some top images are new, and I wanted to tie them all together with the short article, for the original posts: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/motor%20wheel
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