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Old 09-08-2008, 11:35 AM
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My link to Dale's website is no longer working.
There is a pretty good explanation of Rock-a-Chute motors in the Rocketeers Collectors Journal, but it is not complete as I have some estes produced Rock-a-chute motors that are not in the list.

Rock-A-Chute motors were of three main series:

1) 1/2" diameter hand packed motors made by Orville Carslile himself.

2) Brown and co . 3/4" motors.

3) ESTES produced, Rock-A-Chute labeled motors, made on the original Mabel machine.

Any Rock-A-Chute motor is very rare. Brown produced motors are even more so, and of course, the little Orville Carslile motors are the Holy Grail of motor collecting. Even spent cases of these motors have some considerable value.
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