February 1916
This photo taken of a sea-plane in Marblehead harbor, just off the Burgess Company yard,
near the end of Redstone Lane. Presently the boat storage yard.
This plane is testament to
the wealth of engineering talent and craftsmanship available in Marblehead at this time.
This plane is a Burgess-Dunne model D8, special because it did not incorporate a traditional fuselage
and tail. Instead it had end panels on the wings for lateral stability.
modified to a seaplane and powered by a Sturtevant engine produced in Hyde Park Mass.
These engines also powered "Noma" a Hickman Sea Sled also built for Vincent Astor.
Astor would 12 years later become the commodore of the New York Yacht Club
and cruise to Marblehead on his yacht " Winchester"
pictured below.
Burgess constructed a wide variety of planes including those under full or partial
patent by other aeronautical designers such as Wright Brothers, Irish born engineer
John William Dunne, and eventually be a subsidiary of Curtiss Aeroplane Company.
The Burgess Company started and owned by W. Starling Burgess operated in town between
1910 and November 8, 1918,
when its manufacturing plant, {pictured below on Doaks lane in Marblehead} burned down.
Burgess constructed a wide variety of planes including those under full or partial
patent by other aeronautical designers such as the Wright Brothers, Irish born engineer
John William Dunne, and would eventually become a subsidiary of Curtiss Aeroplane Company.
In this photo dated May 14 1917, men appear to be working on Curtiss Model R planes.
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