I'm in the process of buying a house and the lady who's selling it has a bunch of old antiques she's selling this week. One of them is this:







All I can find on it is that it's a 1200 W set made in 1964. Can anyone tell me more about it?

 

Check out the Antique Engines Antique Tractors Steam Engines and Old Iron forums. They have a section dedicated to these vintage and antique generators.

They helped me out with my 1963 Dayton/Winco generator.

 

Thanks, Ian!

Most of my google searches led me there, so I eventually set up an account and asked some questions. Very helpful people over there!

I went up to the house last night and was able to get it running. Before the previous owner died he must have drained the fuel for storage, so I didn't have to deal with 8-year-old gas gumming things up. After filling the tank it fired right up! Really amazing for a 46 year old machine.

 

Those Onan generators are great. When the hurricane hit a few years back, We evacuated up to my families homestead about 70 miles away. The wind knocked out service for about a month. After the first day with no power, I got the John Deere out and pulled the onan out of an old winnebago that had been sitting for over twenty years. It looked almost new. I took a washing machine body and fit the generator on top. We spent about two hours fiddling with it and fired it up. It ran non stop for a month and powered 2 fridges, 4 fans, and 2 televisions.