What type of old engine is this

[blondterror]

Originally Posted by zimmy

Any combustion chamber, spark plugs, or magnito or anything? I would say it is not an engine at all based on the picture. Looks to me like it is belt driven, probably by a hit and miss engine. The belt pulley drives the big gear on the left and the gear drives the shaft that drives the pistons. Compressor might be right. The pistons might drive air into that cylinder on posterior side. I may have a home for it if you decide to get rid of it.

I just got an email from my BIL and my sister chimed in as well... apparently the building was the village laundry and the mechanism was the pump driven by a hit & miss engine just like Zimmy said. There were also belts that drove the agitation of several vessels used to wash clothes. The Hit & Miss engine was sold this summer to a guy in Ohio who came with his Dualie pickup truck and they had a rigger remove it and put in the bed of his truck.. here are a couple more pictures before the motor was removed and the actual removal