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Ray Motor Company
From the Patent Office Gazette of March 4, 1924, it is revealed that Ray Motor Company received a trademark on their “Ray” engine, claiming use of the search of the Patent Office records, no further indication detailed research of carious magazines adn trade journals of the period fails to unearth any mention of the company or its engines. Presumably if production reached the point where a registered trademark was deemed advisable, at least some mention shoudl occur among the mass of literature and ephemera still available. Such however, is not the case with Ray Motor Company. Perhaps intensive research in the Detroit area might eventually shed some light on thsi virtually unknown entity.
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A collector in Australia furnished us with the only illustration we have ever found for the Ray marine engine. None ol our sources have any reference to the Ray engine aside from the company name. Frequently this raises the question of whether a company actually got to the point of making an engine, and in a few cases, the question is raised of whether the whole operation was nothing more than a stock scheme. However t,his living example proves conclusively that Ray built at least a few engines. It must be remembered that Australia was hungry for engines. Apparently, export companies did a thriving business shipping engines to Australia.
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