Peterboro Evinrude, what year?

[oldlure]

Helping a friend identify his motor. I found the Peterboro Johnson serial # list but nothing for Peterboro Evinrudes.

4425 should be a Sportsman but what year is serial # 51555?

[johnny]

It is probably a 1949 model but being made in Canada that serial number may represent a different year.

[Mumbles]

I’ll go with ’48 as my father traded in a ’48 Sportsman back in ’63 for a new Johnson CD 5.5  and the serial number on it was 52777, a bit higher than yours.   A few years back I aquired and restored another ’48 Sportsman and the serial number on it is about 15 digits different from the one on the ’48 which got traded in.  I figure OMC must have filled a boxcar full of motors built on the same shift and then shipped them out to the coast here.

 

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[HARRY D. NICHOLSON]

A Canadian Evinrude 4425 51555 is 1950.  The first 1950 Canadian Sportsman was 51501. They made it through 1951.

[Mumbles]

HARRY D. NICHOLSON wrote:

A Canadian Evinrude 4425 51555 is 1950.  The first 1950 Canadian Sportsman was 51501. They made it through 1951.

So my ’48 is actually a ’50 or ’51 model?  I think it was my old  OMC dealer who looked it up and told me it was a ’48.

Can you post a list of Canadian built Evinrudes serial numbers?  I have a Johnson list but no Evinrude list. TIA!

[crosbyman]

Engine: 1948 Evinrude 1.5 HP (Sportsman 4425) (iboats.com)

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