Big News! Gas Engines Now Made In Sandwich


 Front page of the Sandwich Free Press in 1914. Sandwich Manufacturing announces they have started producing their own line of gasoline engines. They had previously been selling engines made by the Stover Engine Works in Freeport Illinois, and the Chanticleer engines made by the Jacob Haish Company in DeKalb, Illinois. 

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