Nice work Danny!
By the way, was there any relation between EP and Schoenner? I have always used that style of firebox venting to ID Schoenners... but obviously this is an EP...
Not direct, Schoenner was taken over by Falk in 1912.
But it's common knowledge that there was a lot of interaction between the Nurnberg firms, in exchange of parts and copying each other.
How far these interactions went is not really known.
But in a few cases the men behind the firms where also related in some way to each other.
Not strange if you know that they all where members of the Jewish community.
And marriages almost always stayed between members of this community.
It's well known that Carette for instance was a cousin of the Bing's.
And if you read the memoirs of Ignaz Bing (published in German), he describes how he helped Carette to start up his own firm.
But it was not always a love story between them, in a later stage in the memoirs of Ignaz Bing, you see friction appear between them.
And not for professional reasons, although not publicly, but for political reasons, as nationalism grew in Germany towards WW1.
Towards WW1 the Jewish community was as pro Nationalistic a the rest of Germany, and the Fatherland alwijs came into first place.
Even production for the war effort, going from nationalistic commemorative plates to steel helmets, was common practice…
A few photos of the engine…
Cheers,
Danny
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