First Hawboldt engine 1906
![A Hawboldt make and break engine with a fly wheel and one cylinder developed in 1906 by Forman Hawboldt. This engine was developed in the first workshop behind his house on Queen Street in Chester in 1906.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/forman-hawboldt-entrepreneur-inventor_inventeur/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2015/10/first-hawboldt-engine1906-2.jpg)
This is a model of the first one – cylinder engine designed by Forman Hawboldt. One like this was used to power a boat around Chester Harbour to a cheering crowd of on-lookers marking the beginning of a change in the Atlantic fishery.