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HA-MOBIL Roller
« on: March 21, 2019, 10:35:44 pm »
I owe a HUGE THANK YOU to Charlie for this one!!

This piece sold on ebay in March of 2018... I had been after one for quite a long time, was watching the listing all week, took a little cousin out for her birthday and on the way home had an oh s*** moment. Was saying 6:38 pm all day in my head so I would remember to bid and completely forgot about it till an hour after it ended  :'(

I had placed an early "watching bid" and there was only one other bidder. After posting about it on the Mamod Forum, I found out that Charlie was the one and only other bidder. He promised to sell/trade the roller to me, but I'm very bad at letting anything go from the collection... Fast forward 11 or so months and I came across an engine that Charlie needed in his collection, so a trade was finally done.  ;D

Quite an odd looking little roller, but a great example of "Toy Steam"  8)










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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2019, 09:23:02 am »
Close-up of the decal



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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2019, 01:00:03 pm »
Nice looking roller and even though it's a little different it's very interesting - and that's a great story......glad you and Charlie could work a deal you both liked.
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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2019, 02:58:07 pm »
So they made a Roller and a Stationary?
This  gives me something else  to look for as I have the Stationary .
What is  it size ? Compared to a Cranko to give me some idea .

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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2019, 03:01:35 pm »
Quote from: Scorpion2nz on March 22, 2019, 02:58:07 pm
So they made a Roller and a Stationary?
This  gives me something else  to look for as I have the Stationary .
What is  it size ? Compared to a Cranko to give me some idea .

I think I can get a comparison for you  ;)

I remember seeing one other roller, years ago, but in poor shape and I cannot find any records of it...
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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2019, 03:17:29 pm »
A quick google search brings up 2 others

Sold by Morphy Auctions



And one found a little ways down this site:

http://www.tele-rene.ch/htm/museume1.htm

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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2019, 03:18:06 pm »
Fantastic addition Nick, congrats !!!


Quote from: Scorpion2nz on March 22, 2019, 02:58:07 pm
So they made a Roller and a Stationary?...


To my knowledge they made at least 3 types of horisontal boiler stationary engines.


An oscillator, a fixed cylinder, and a somewhat larger fixed cylinder vertical.
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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2019, 03:26:53 pm »
Nice one, Nick, and good on you, Charlie, for the trade!

I had a large HA Mobil vertical and what a fine machine it was!

Your roller looks to be of good quality, especially the engine itself.
Is that a slip eccentric I see that lets it start in either direction?

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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2019, 03:50:43 pm »
Quote from: classixs on March 22, 2019, 03:18:06 pm
To my knowledge they made at least 3 types of horisontal boiler stationary engines.


An oscillator, a fixed cylinder, and a somewhat larger fixed cylinder vertical.

This site shows 2 of them, scroll down to 31, 32 and 32/1

http://www.tele-rene.ch/htm/museume1.htm

They also list the Holzapfel Der-Kleine Willi as being HA-Mobil in section 32/03, which I believe is wrong, going by my box...



Tractor they show as HA-Mobil Willy



And my Holzapfel Der-Kleine Willi

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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2019, 03:54:38 pm »
Quote from: Scorpion2nz on March 22, 2019, 02:58:07 pm
What is  it size ? Compared to a Cranko to give me some idea .

Will this work?  ;D







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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2019, 04:20:41 pm »
1 measly quart of drool, and one´s keyboard shorts out on you...what´s the world coming to these days?


Fantastic lineup Nick !!!
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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2019, 04:22:41 pm »
Great pictures Nick! 

One of my best buys on eBay thanks to you.  I bought it in March 2018 for $305.00. 

I had it in my home office for almost a year and enjoyed looking at it every day.

Here is the video from my YouTube Channel:



So everyone has the full story.....Nick really worked very hard for this trade.  He had spotted an Empire No. 43 Reversible with Pump in an antique mall an hour or so  from his home that I didn't have in my collection.  He posted about it on another forum. It was priced at $250 I believe.  I told him that if he would go back and buy it that I would trade him the HA-MOBIL Roller for it.  Nick drove back to the antique store (probably 100 miles round trip) and had the antique mall store clerk contact the seller (who lived out of state I believe) and negotiated a much lower price.  So, one of my best eBay buys became even a better buy for Nick.  Most people just don't have that much initiative.

Another fine example of the camaraderie and sense of community that you get from fellow collectors.

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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2019, 07:18:29 pm »
Quote from: txlabman on March 22, 2019, 04:22:41 pm
Great pictures Nick! 

One of my best buys on eBay thanks to you.  I bought it in March 2018 for $305.00. 
Thanks Charlie, and probably a good thing I forgot the auction ending as we were the only two bidders, who knows what we would have bid it up to  :D

Here is the Empire before its trip to Texas

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Re: HA-MOBIL Roller
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2019, 09:24:04 am »
A couple more pics





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