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British Seagull was a British manufacturer of simple and rugged two-stroke marine outboard motors, produced from the late 1930s until the mid-1990s. Originally based in Wolverhampton, the company moved to Poole, Dorset, a centre for boating and yachting. Seagull engines were utilitarian outboards with a relatively slow-turning prop.
A trolling motor is a self-contained marine propulsion unit that includes an electric motor, propeller and control system, and is affixed to an angler's boat, either at the bow or stern. A gasoline-powered outboard used in trolling , if it is not the vessel's primary source of propulsion, may also be referred to as a trolling motor.
1927 Johnson Seahorse outboard motor at the Tellus Science Museum. The original company that made Johnson inboard motors and outboard motors was the Johnson Brothers Motor Company of Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. They started building inboard 2-cycle marine engines in 1903 in a barn behind the house, along with matching boats.
Most electric outboard motors have 0.5- to 4-kilowatt direct-current (DC) electric motors, operated at 12 to 60 volts DC. Recently developed outboard motors are powered with an alternating current (AC) or DC electric motor in the power head like a conventional petrol engine.
Headquarters A Mercury 50 HP outboard motor circa 1980 Six cylinder two-stroke engine in 1984. Mercury Marine is a marine engine division of Brunswick Corporation headquartered in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The main product line is outboard motors.
Oceanvolt has received several awards for its SD8.6 saildrive system, the latest being the 2013 Pittman Innovation Award given by SAIL Magazine for Oceanvolt's "compact robust design" [1] featuring waterproof permanent magnet motor with closed circulation liquid cooling, single lever control with motor status shown by LEDs, and folding ...
Outboard Marine Corporation (OMC) was a maker of Evinrude, Johnson and Gale Outboard Motors, and many different brands of boats. It was a multibillion-dollar Fortune 500 corporation. [ 1 ] Evinrude began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1907.
J. H. Haynes & Co. Limited was founded on 18 May 1960, and its first manual was entitled Haynes Owners Workshop Manual. Austin-Healey Sprite was published in 1965. [4] [7] The cover of many Haynes Manuals depicts a cutaway view technical drawing of the vehicle, drawn and signed by Terry Davey. [citation needed]