Fairbanks Morse Model Z engine

The Fairbanks Morse Model Z was a small stationary and farm engine built by Fairbanks, Morse and Company. The maker renamed its headless 1.5 horsepower model the Z in July 1914, with the gasoline tank in the base, and widened the range of sizes in 1917. In 1918 it dropped the headless models in favour of a head, and the larger engines could then run on kerosene. A fully enclosed style D arrived in 1928, and the Z was made in sizes of 3, 6, 12, 15 and up to 20 horsepower. More than half a million were produced over the following thirty years, farmers took to it, and it is collected today. A Mexican factory built Z engines into the 1980s, and the line was sold to Bell in the early 1980s.