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Maybe someone out there can help me to identify this engine.
Saw it during a trip in Bonaire.
I was trying to find the year of construction and the use of it.
It is a Fairbanks Morse 10 cylinders engine.

Thanks
Andre
Still in Bonaire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbanks ... sel_engine

Is that BOPEC?

Here is a direct Model T connection with the Fairbanks engines.
They have obviously been in business supplying marine engines for many years.
Way back in 1907 one of the Australian distributors of Fords, Lewis Davies was importing Fairbanks marine engines to power his speed boat which he raced on Sydney Harbour and won many races with it. This is a January 1907 newspaper clipping of its impending launch and a photo of it.

Those big Fairbanks Morse multi-cylinder engines were often used for municipal power plants. They could be had as upright, single cylinders, or 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 cylinders units. Being 2 cycle, any reasonable number of cylinders could be specified. They could run for decades. They were also used to power factories, mills, gins, and so forth. I've seen them set up to run on natural gas, and they may have had a version that burned fuel oil. Older units would have had brass tags and no mention of Colt Industries. Wikipedia may have a write up on Fairbanks Morse which might reveal the date of the Colt Industries association.

We had three 10 cylinder engines on the last submarine I was on, the USS Harder, SS568. Just after I got off of it, the Navy sold it to Italy.