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I have a single cylinder Marna marine engine and I just wondered if anyone can give me any information on it  and some idea of what it may be worth, I have owned this engine for around 10 years and during that time it has been started it was restored by my father who has sadly passed away any information would be appreciated I also have the original propeller and shaft tube the propeller blades rotate and change the thrust from forward to reverse 

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It seems the company may still be in business: https://marna.no/

 

It seems they make/made petrol and diesel engines. I suspect the petrol version may not be worth much at all and the diesel is probably worth most to someone who wants to replace a broken one. A variable prop is probably the most unsuitable for an inland boat, but the rag and string fraternity may like them

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2 hours ago, Guitar Gus said:

I have a single cylinder Marna marine engine and I just wondered if anyone can give me any information on it  and some idea of what it may be worth, I have owned this engine for around 10 years and during that time it has been started it was restored by my father who has sadly passed away any information would be appreciated I also have the original propeller and shaft tube the propeller blades rotate and change the thrust from forward to reverse 

It sounds like the sort of thing that would go down well on a stationary engine rally field, particularly if it has the original propeller gear.

 

An enquiring E-mail to Stationary Engine magazine (Kelsey Publishing last time I looked)  may produce some information.

 

The other place I would try is the engine forum  on the Internal Fire website.

 

There is also old engine.org.

 

 

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15 minutes ago, BEngo said:

There is also old engine.org.

Alas no more.

Apparently the chap that ran it died, the domain name was not renewed and got taken over by one of those domain sitting companies. One of the people whose own website had been hosted at oldengine.org tried to acquire the domain to reinstate the site, but the new owner wanted a small fortune and the idea died. And with it a number of individual engine websites that it had hosted for many years.

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2 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:

It seems the company may still be in business: https://marna.no/

What an interesting website! Not sure if it is the original company or an enthusiast site - they don't seem to have built engines after 1972.

A combination of Norwegian penmanship and Google translate gives a wonderfully whimsical description of the restoration of a 1955 engine:

https://marna-no.translate.goog/entusiasten-forteller/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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1 hour ago, David Mack said:

Alas no more.

Apparently the chap that ran it died, the domain name was not renewed and got taken over by one of those domain sitting companies. One of the people whose own website had been hosted at oldengine.org tried to acquire the domain to reinstate the site, but the new owner wanted a small fortune and the idea died. And with it a number of individual engine websites that it had hosted for many years.

 

Is/was the site captured on the way back machine, or any of the other archive sites perhaps?

 

Edit to add, I've just had a look myself and all the old stuff is there to be browsed. Have a look here!

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20191231143146/http://www.oldengine.org/

 

 

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