So Constructed That Practically All of Its Parts Are Interchangeable
with those of the Ford Automobile Engine
-Economic and Trouble-Saving Advantages Claimed
The Elbridge Co., of Rochester, N.Y., which manufactures the Elbridge line of two-cycle engines in sizes ranging from 3 to 90 h.p., is now also manufacturing a four-cycle machine known as the Wonder motor. This engine is practically a Ford marine motor, as it is designed and constructed to have a majority of its parts interchangeable with those of the Ford automobile engine. The Wonder is not an automobile engine, however, improvements having been effected in the way of lubrication and adjustability which are declared to have made it thoroughly suitable for marine use.
The characteristics of the Ford engine are so well known that is hardly necessary here to enter upon a detailed description of this motor. It is, of course, a four-cylinder en bloc machine of the L-head type, having a detachable cylinder head. The cylinder dimensions are 3 ¾ x4 inches, and the rated power is 22.5 h.p.
The principal value claimed for this engine is the interchangeability with those of the Ford motor. Under some conditions the motor boatman is obliged to wait days and sometimes weeks to secure whatever new parts may be necessary, but so widespread is the distribution of Ford parts that it is usually a very simple matter to make any replacement from a piston ring to a cylinder head. The comparative inexpensiveness of Ford parts is another point to be taken in to consideration.
Altogether, there are 189 interchangeable parts in the Wonder motor
From Motor Boating Magazine -1917
