Gray Marine Motor Company was an important marine engine builder. It built gasoline engines ranging from one to six cylinders in both gas and later diesel layouts which were used in pleasure and work boats.
Gray was an American firm, based in Detroit from 1901 until the 1970s. Many fishing boats, lobsterboats, tugs and pleasure craft used Gray engines. These boats were usually of small size, ranging from 12 to 32 feet. Many of their engines were marinized truck motors from Hercules, Studebaker, Pontiac, Continental or General Motors Diesel Division.
Gray also produced a line of outboard motors without the typical ninety-degree gearbox. A curved housing connected motor to propellor. The lower-unit housing contained a flexible inner rotating shaft.
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