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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

We are collectors aren't we, great stuff everyone.

Most have seen these before, but I at least took fresh pictures .

Vintage peanut roasters (store and street models). Heres one I use often. A Cretors counter top model from the 20s. Runs on electric and has a small motor to turn the drum.

A Bartholomew Victor from the turn of the century. This one ran on white gas or naptha and is powered by a clockwork mechanism with a governor. It can run for 4-5 mintues with 1 winding. I don't fire this one up as far as roasting but love watching the gears turn.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/RoastersnEngines/Victor.jpg

A Kingery from the teens. This one used to run on "city gas". I now run it with propane.
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/RoastersnEngines/Kingery.jpg

Also gasoline utility engines. These were used mostly on the farm (although many small machine shops, sewing factories etc also were powered by larger versions of these) to run generators, churn butter, grind corn, pump water, power lumber mills, run tractors etc. Here are 2 New Holland engines (a 2 HP and a 5)
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/RoastersnEngines/NewHollands.jpg

2 HP Economy
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/RoastersnEngines/Economy.jpg
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/RoastersnEngines/Economy_close.jpg

1 1/2 HP Root and Vandervoort
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/RoastersnEngines/RnV.jpg

a small running model
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f92/vwtdi55/RoastersnEngines/Model.jpg

edited to add what runs the peanut roasters and what the engines were used for.