Sterling Comercial Marine Engines / Sterling Engine Co.

Anonymous-0

Well-known Member
Greetings all,

While doing a routine search for Sterling Marine Engines, I came upon a series of posts from between 1999 and 2001 regarding some individuals looking for information on the Sterling Engine Company.

So 12 years later,

Did everyone find the information they were looking for on engines from the Sterling Engine Company of Buffalo NY? (Not to be confused with "Stirling Cycle" (with an "i") hot air engines).

There are some of us boat heads that are into Sterling and have additional resources from years of collecting and research.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions, needs or have Sterling Engines or documentation to get rid of.

Cheers,

Lew "The West Coast Sterling Guy!"
 
Sorry, all I have is curiosity, but you did offer....
My 38 Victor lists one of the Sterling inline 4s, noting it was used in the Scripps-Booth 4, not listed in that catalog but listed in an earlier one as the H1,15G for 1915-18. This engine apparently issued in both 23/4x4 and 3x4 (gasoline and kero versions, or a production upgrade??)...
The next page of that 38 catalog also shows it in a Stewart truck, but there's no engine model designation in either listing, nor in an earlier 1930 catalog...
Can I ID this engine's model # by comparing with online Sterling lists, or did Sterlig issue engines without any particular model designation???
 
Well, Lew, this's what happens when you volunteer...
Now that my fickle curiosity's been piqued, I ran a couple of my old catalogs and my engine notes from my editions of the Std Cat Am'cn cars and Mroz's truck books, and came up with models of these vehicles using Sterlings:
Brill Rlwy Car
The apparently non-existent Haseltine, the Howard, Monroe, Scripps-Booth and Standard cars;
Coleman and Stewart trucks.
I'll be reviewing more catalogs, and I haven't gone thru the oldmarineengine postings yet; I also have an inquiry on aaca, and'll post one on the antique car/truck forun at smokstak, so I assume more will turn up.
I also wondered if any of the "assembled" car/truck makers who passed off someone elses engines as their own might've used Sterlings; does any such list of non-marine, non-industrial uses of Sterlings exist, or is there already a website or source with this info??
Many Thxx!! Bud
 

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