Georgian Jeff Stevens collects hit and miss engines from before the 1940s. To the untrained year, they sound as if they are unable to start. In... Sounds of a Hit and Miss Engine Jeff Stevens of Alto, ...

BRAINERD — Greg Olson returned to the Crow Wing County Fair this summer to showcase his antique hit-and-miss engines. Hit-and-miss engines get their name from how they regulate speed. When the engine ...

An always reliable hit-and-miss engine pumped water uphill to the stock tank on the farm located a half-mile from our farm. It took a long while to fill the tank and to lug 10-gallon pails of water to ...

Robert Jacobs of New Middletown has been bringing his antique hit-and-miss engines to the Canfield Fair since 1976. CANFIELD — Walking past the “Antique Tractors and Stationary Engines” tent in the ...

Photo by Jeffrey Saulton Dave Wilson, right, and Jonathan Wilson, both of Petroleum, start up an antique tractor at the 18th annual Pioneer Antique Power Association show at Howes Grove Park on ...