#ALAMO ENGINE REGISTRY SERIAL#
However, because of the earlier association with Haish, an “A” was added to the front of early serial numbers, this was apparently unique to Rock Island. Like other distributors for Alamo, Rock Island provided its own badging for the Alamo engines they sold with the Alamo serial number. the A type alamo’s in some cases used larger flywheels to make a higher hp than other labels. Because RIPC was primarily a farm company, there was little demand on them for the larger engines and most Rock Island Alamo’s fall in the smaller sizes up to about 5 hp.
#ALAMO ENGINE REGISTRY FULL#
Because of the number of resellers, there is some inconsistency across the various lines, with the same engine possibly having 1/2 to a full 1 hp difference depending on whose tag it carried. The Rock Island/Alamo’s came in a variety of sizes ranging from 1 horse up to 25 horse. so far, no pattern has emerged on coloring so it may be branch house related.
After talking with owners and examining original engines, it appears that there were at least five colors used for the alamo line ranging from a pale yellow to a dark brown. This has been a common topic of discussion with the assumption there was only one correct color. There is much debate on the exact color of Rock Island engines, but Dulux 93-24590 brown seems to be a common standard, however, it is extremely common to see them at shows ranging from a pale mustard to a dark brown. By many accounts, Rock Island would become the single largest distributor of Alamo engines, and by agreement was allowed to sell the engines entirely under the Rock Island name and colors.
#ALAMO ENGINE REGISTRY PLUS#
As such, Alamo’s were sold under a dozen plus names according to Denis Rouleau’s Buzzcoil Alamo site, including local rival the Moline Plow Company under the Flying Dutchman name. Either way, by mid 1914 the Alamo’s were front and center to Rock Islands line.Īlamo was a large producer of Hit & Miss engines already, but far preferred to allow other companies to distribute their products in the teens. Its not entirely certain if Rock Island for a time sold both Alamo and Haish engines, if there was a gap or the transition was fairly clean. In late 1913 or very early 1914 Rock Island started acting as a distributor for Alamo gas engines built by the Alamo Engine Co.
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