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Date of a Wilesco's base.
« on: February 23, 2022, 05:19:19 pm »
I have an older Wilesco with the circular emblem and the corners of the base
are not held together with that crimped piece of metal like a picture frame.
It's spot welded and I would like to know about what year this was used.
Thank you all for looking and any help would be appreciated.


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Re: Date of a Wilesco's base.
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2022, 08:58:50 pm »
Well I posted this question a week ago and no responses.
So I posted the same thing on The Mamod Forum and had my
answers and then some in 24hrs. Nice folks.
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Re: Date of a Wilesco's base.
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2022, 02:09:01 am »
Sorry Tommy...

Did see your post on the phone, but than completely forgot to reply, when i got home to the laptop.
Happy to hear you eventually got it sorted elsewhere :)
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Re: Date of a Wilesco's base.
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2022, 08:07:03 am »
That's alright Jan, thanks for chiming in.
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Re: Date of a Wilesco's base.
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2022, 09:49:13 am »
So, for the rest of us who don't know, what was the date time frame that the Mamod forum came up with? There has to be a database somewhere with the information like:

Spot welded base was 19XX to 19XX
Crimped base was 19xx to 19xx

etc.

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Re: Date of a Wilesco's base.
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2022, 05:54:58 pm »
Quote from: Quickj on March 05, 2022, 09:49:13 am
So, for the rest of us who don't know, what was the date time frame that the Mamod forum came up with? There has to be a database somewhere with the information like:

Spot welded base was 19XX to 19XX
Crimped base was 19xx to 19xx

etc.

Jim in Minnesota


Wilesco started making steam engines in 1950 with the spot welded corners, and the D28 was
there from the start. They went to the crimped on frame corners in 1960. Going by several
other changes that took place in the mid 50s, that's where mine is, the second half of the 50s.
Some of the smaller ones were just stamped out with round corners.

So on the big ones.
Welded bases was from 1950 thru 1959.
Crimped bases are from 1960 to the present.
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