I had a 1949 Caddy series 62 4 door sedan. The pistons are unique to 49 only. The heads from 49 through 56 will work as when I had to have work done on the valves they had to put in new valve seats and the only ones that would work were from a 1956 model so that is the heads that were on the one I had. It was orignally sold new on July 7, 1949 at St. Marys, Ohio. There never was an Olds engine of the size that were used in the Caddys at that time, 20 some years later possibly. Now for some information the 48-49 Caddy and 49 Buick roadmaster and 48 Olds 98 were stamped on the same press for the body and the Olds engine that was used in that body was a flat head straight 8, 257.1 cu" and the Buick engine was an overhead valve straight 8, 320.2 cu". The V8 Olds of that era was a 303.7" engine. I do have the old shop manuals for these cars. In 1953 the left cylinder head was priced at $47.25 for 49-51, 52-53 and all right heads were $49.63. The engine was a V8 3 13/16" X 3 5/8" at 7.5 compression ratio for 1949 - 52 and for 53 it was up to 8.25. Bare engine HP was rated @ 160, with accesories @ 141 and taxable HP was 46.5 and that would compair to the way tractors were rated.
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Today's Featured Article - George's Fordson Major - by Anthony West (UK). This is a bit of a technical info to add on to the article about George's Major in the "A Towny Goes Plowing" article. George bought his Major from a an implement sale about 18 years ago for £200.00. There is no known history regarding its origins or what service it had done, but the following work was undertaken by Harold alone to bring it up to show standard. From the engine number, it was found that the major was produced late 19
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