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The Hercules Gas engine company was a United States-based company which first produced buggies. It later was one of the top producers of gasoline engines, including to power cement mixers.
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The company was founded in 1902, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Before the company ceased operations in 1934 during the Great Depression, it was one of the top producers of gas engines.[1]
Hercules produced engines to power cement mixers of the Jaeger Machine Company of Columbus, Ohio.[2][better source needed] Gas engines manufactured by the Hercules Engine Company were branded with the name "Jaeger".
References
edit- ^ Glenn Karch: History of the Hercules Gas Engine Co., Gas Engine Magazine, May 2001
- ^ Jaeger Engine