Re: Need help identifying a Packard part, Bijur gen/mag?

Posted by Sherlock On 2018/7/30 17:17:32

Guscha et al, I was mislead by the 1923 date given on Bijur Lubrication's successor company's own website. The odds of another separate Bijur company seemed long, so I just left the question hanging. Now I figure either the Bijur company was reorganized in 1923, perhaps through bankruptcy, or more likely a new separate company was formed by Joseph Bijur.

At any rate, it appears sometime in the early '20s Bijur Lubricating Corporation came into being with a product line of lubrication devices for many different kinds of machinery. What became of Bijur Motor Lighting Co. and its electrical products after that time remains a bit obscure, although it appears likely (per Guscha's link) to have been absorbed by what is now A.S.A.P. Semiconductor.

Toby, the part in question here looks like a generator to me. I note in Guscha's Bijur ad dated 1915, adjacent to the photo of the Twin Six, it says "the Bijur two unit starting system has been adapted to the new requirements simply by making the generator and motor cylindrical instead of rectangular. Rectangular comports with your photos. Therefore I would conclude that this part is a generator off either a 2-38, 3-38, 4-48 or 5-48 produced in either 1914 or 1915. Quite a rare item.