PAMCC, Aircraft Division?

Ask Tony Costa…….when we were out to Watkins Glen he swore my V-12 was flying………..😋 . I have never seen anything aircraft related. What MAY be possible is a modified motorcycle engine like they did with the Hendersons. But that is just conjecture. Ed.

Somewhere I read that Pierce-Arrow’s Chief Engineer, David Fergusson, had worked closely with Orville Wright on the design of aircraft engines in WWI and that the dual ignition features of the Series 32 and 33 Pierce-Arrows of the post war period were a direct result of that partnership. Just like an aircraft, the cars have built in redundancy. You can run on the right bank, the left bank, or both banks of plugs and coils. In the 1990 all-Pierce AQ issue, vol 28, no. 4, p.89, former Pierce employee “Maurice Thorne recalled: Many prominent people who bought Pierce Arrows used to come to the plant to take delivery of the their cars. Orville Wright bought a new Pierce-Arrow every year and it became my privilege to have little special things done to his cars and then hear his suggestions on features he deemed desirable and improvements that should be made.”” My 1922 Series 33 4-pass touring has a modified Cole Aerocar motometer mount. Always made me kind of wonder…….

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Online research reveals that there was trade magazine hubbub from 1917 through 1919 about PAMCC manufacturing aircraft engines.

Apparently the PAMCC entered in to an agreement to manufacture Hispano-Suiza aircraft engines.

I assume that all of this was to support the war effort for WWI.

David –

I’m not sure if this helps answer your question or raises another: the Buffalo factory was used as a “Specialized Depot”” for the 801st Army Air Force from 1946 to 1949.

Brooks”

David

I also have the same item as you pictured. I believe that I got it at a Hershey meet in the 80’soriginally with other items I bought from a stall that was cleaning out their Father’s attic. Supposedly the Father worked for P-A in Buffalo. Included in that buy was original P-A tool drawings they sent out to vendors for quotes. If only P-A memorabilia could talk…

I only know of two mechanical pins, mine and yours.

Easier to read version.

The tools that were painted had a very thin black ‘wash’ on them.. about like the ‘see-through’ black paint on the frame and chassis of a modern car.. It is so thin that most cars in the midwest and northeast don’t have any black paint showing on the frame and chassis after one or two winters. There is nothing but rust.

The black paint on the tools I have is glossy, but, because it is so thin, the surface of the paint is not smooth or polished, because the surface of the forged and stamped tool is not polished glossy-smooth.

I do have several tools that were nickel plated, usually pliers, and occasionally a screwdriver are the ones that get a dull nickel finish. I think Pierce called this ‘Tumbled Nickel’ or ‘Butler Nickel’. Definitely not a glossy shiny nickel like a radiator shell or headlight rim.

Greg Long