The DeWire Engine Collection

     Bill and Nancy DeWire's

    Hit-and-Miss Gas Engines...

Bill got his first hit-and-miss engine in 1964.  It was a 1918 Witte, and Witte engines still are his favorites.  

Another favorite in Bill's collection is a 2 Horsepower Economy engine, built by Hercules, that was mounted on a cart with a cement mixer.  The engine was originally owned by Bill's late brother David DeWire, who was a teacher and volunteer fireman in Eagles Mere, PA.  David found this engine in a collapsed building near the old Crestmont Hotel in Eagles Mere.  The story goes that the engine and mixer were used to mix cement for the construction of the Crestmont Hotel in the early 1900s.  (Pictured at left, Nancy DeWire and some of her grandchildren with an old cement mixer.)

Bill recently restored a large Witte 22 HP engine that he bought in Georgia (pictured here).

The DeWire Engine Collection:  (updated 12/2006)