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West Coast was the Detroit of fishboat engines

9min2022 JUL 19

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... until the mid-1930s San Francisco Bay was the Detroit of the marine-engine industry; the Union Gas Engine Company, est. 1885, was one of the very first manufacturers of gasoline engines of any kind in the U.S. (Astoria, Clatsop County; 1880-1920) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1912d.west-coast-fishboat-engines.html)

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