I've been doing a lot of research on my family, most of whom died before I was old enough to remember them. Some recent breakthroughs revealed my grandfather opened a machine shop in 1909 on Aliso Street just east of Los Angeles. He invested a large sum of money along with some other folks in a project to develop a rotary engine for cars. The project failed and everyone lost heavily.
That's about all I know. I frankly hold little hope of learning any details about this engine, but I'm hoping perhaps someone might know something about this, or know of some repository of failed engine development projects. This of course, assumes there was some published info on this engine.
My original request pinging folks in Ridgecrest resulted ultimately in meeting with some folks that knew my father and grandfather and is where I got the lead on this engine. Hoping the vast r.c.m. network will come through again!
Thanks all,
Jon Anderson