MYSTERY ENGINE

By Bill Strayer
Published on November 1, 1971
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Mr. Banks Smith on right and his father on the left, showing their ''Mystery'' Frick Engine. No date is given but Mr. Smith says it was early in the 1900s.

R.D. 1, Dillsburg, Pennsylvania 17019

At one of the early steam shows held at the Williams Grove Park,
a man approached me while I was operating a Frick portable engine
and told me that he had run Frick portable engine while he was a
young man.

Now this was a common story, but then he told me it was built

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