Office of Steam Forum for Model & Toy Steam Gas & Hot Air Engines

After sifting through much old literature from Solar Engines Phoenix AZ I found that the company did not call the original engine a “Solar #1, nor was it named a Hot Air engine, nor Thermal Energy Engine. The actual name was staring me in the face after I found an original Owners Manual with a December 1, 1977 letter signed by John I Griffin stuffed inside the Manual. While Solar Engine #1 is what PM Research is currently calling that model, “Stirling Cycle Engine 1817-1977 Model 1” is what the original Solar Engines called it, and they often dropped the 1817-1977 part but retained the Stirling Cycle Engine Model 1 reference. Latter JEMCO Solar Engines 1980’s advertising calls that model their quote — “Original” Stirling Cycle Engine.
Here is the 1st 5 pages of the Dec 1977 referenced Owners Manual. More to follow. There is no copyright, no author listed, and the company on back page is defunct. There is also no page numbers, so I have put them in order.
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More of the 11 page Owners Manual to follow in next post.