MANUFACTURED BY: IEL (Industrial Engineering Ltd.)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
SERIES OR ASSEMBLY NUMBER: Super Pioneer
YEAR INTRODUCED: 1953
YEAR DISCONTINUED: 1956
ENGINE DISPLACEMENT: 5.22 cu. in. (85.7 cc)
NUMBER OF CYLINDERS: 1
CYLINDER BORE: 2.0625 in. (52 mm)
PISTON STROKE: 1.5626 in. (40 mm)
CYLINDER TYPE: Aluminum with cast iron sleeve
INTAKE METHOD: Reed valve
MANUFACTURER ADVERTISED H.P.: 5
IEL SUPER DD:Brief history from the seller from whom i acquired the saw:
The history about the saw is that it belonged to my
father in-Law. As a hard working dairy farmer in Upstate
New York he spent time during the winter cutting logs for
projects or income. He also hauled pulp wood when the price
was right and planed his own lumber on the farm using an old
cast iron planer and a belt drive from a tractor for power. It did a
great job and was kept in an old planer house. This is where the
saw was found; it was in a loft and must have been there for
over 20 years, since I've never seen it.
BRIEF HISTORY by Wayne Sutton: Reed-Prentice, Smith, IEL, Mall, and others were connected through the Stihl model type BD copies. It is also true that Bob McCulloch worked for Reed-Prentice, connecting him to the linage as well. Mill and Mine Supply and their Titans were direct desendents as were numerous other builders worldwide.
Reed Prentice Corp purchased D.J.Smith Manufacturing in late 1939. R-P was trying win a military contact to build chainsaws for the war. Then when Mercury appeared as the front runner for the engine portion of that contact, R-P pursued the cutter portion. In turn they sold the D.J. Smith Mfg. company back to Smith and his employees in late 1942.
Smith contracts that he had signed with the German government that covered the purchase of Stihl chain saws in exchange for Canadian lumber. They did not want Canadian currency. Mr Smith had been doing field modifications to the saws including a dual oil and gas tank and a simpler helper handle. They copied the German chain and made their own bars. When the war broke out in 1939 and he could no longer get chain saws he used the Stihls as patterns and produced his own saws which he sold until 1941 when he sold the rights to Reed Prentice. They held the rights for two years and sold them back to the factory contingent that formed Industrial Engineering Limited in 1943.(Marshall Trover).
