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July 2003
Oscar H. Will III 
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1868 Initial facility expansion allows about 1,000 plow units to be produced annually.

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1870 Moline Plow Co. forms and incorporates on April 6.

1883 The Flying Dutchman three-wheeled sulky plow is released.

1915 The Moline Plow Co. purchases the Universal Tractor Co. of Columbus, Ohio.

1917 The Flying Dutchman name is temporarily removed to support the war effort. Company officials apparently believed customers would mistake the Dutchman logo with the Germans.

1925 Corporate restructuring results in the formation of the Moline Implement Co.

1929 Merger of Moline Implement Co., Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Co., and Minneapolis Threshing Machine Co. forms the Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Co.

- Mike Schmudlach is interested in learning more about his plows. Contact Mike by phone at (608) 4SS-2700; or by e-mail: msschmudlach@msn.com; or by mail at 538 Windmill Road, Brooklyn, WI 53521.

Oscar 'Hank' Will III is an old-iron collector and restorer who retired from farming in 1999 and from academia in 1996. He splits his time between his home in Whittier, Calif., and his farm in East Andover, N.H. As a result, he travels coast to coast with his Welsh Corgi Charlie, a.k.a. Road Dawg, and writes about the machines and people he meets in between. Write him at 13952 Summit Drive, Whittier, CA 90602; or call (562) 696-4024; or e-mail: owill@mail.whittier.edu

The Madison Plow Co.

1873 John A. Johnson joins Fuller-Williams & Co., a Madison, Wis., farm implement business, which then becomes Johnson, Fuller and Co.

1880 Johnson, Fuller and Co. purchases the plow manufacturer Firmin, Billings & Co., and names the expanded business the Madison Plow Co.

1882  The Madison Plow Co. is renamed Fuller and Johnson Manufacturing.

1883  Fuller and Johnson develops the Starks Combined Force-Drop Planter and Check-Rower for planting corn.

1884  Fuller and Johnson sells more than 1,700 Red White and Blue mowers with its newly patented mower shoe, a significant improvement to the sickle bar mower, which helped it ride level and slide easily across the ground.

1890 Fuller and Johnson manufactures the Bemis Tobacco Transplanter.

1911 Fuller and Johnson sells its implement manufacturing business as the Madison Plow Co.

1948 Madison Plow Co. ceases operation.



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