A little history
We have the Atwood
parts and molds but not the Wasp which was identical. All
the tanks we have,
have the pick up at the bottom.
The mold has 2
tanks and 2 crankcases. The tank we use is the timer tank
modified to act as a regular tank.
Bob Holland and
Bill Atwood had a falling out in early-mid 1950's. Bob Holland
took the Wasp and Bill Atwood
came out with the near identical Atwood named version after
that. The Wasp was nicer
castings like where the crankcase screws go through the case
and the name engraving.
Unfortunately
the Wasp stuff was all gone long ago and tooling was destroyed
in 1968 when the
die casting company that made the casting burned down in 1968.
We luckily were
given the Holland Hornet and some Johnson tooling by Bob
Holland about a year before he passed away. The Atwood .049
project we have came from Signature Motors in Tulsa, OK.
Here is some good
info
http://www.modelenginenews.org/people/atwood.html
If you look at
the picture of the .049 and .15, it shows the timer tank with
pick up tube on
the bottom of the .049
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