Company History
Company History
5/20/2010 3:48:07 PM
What started as the White Sewing Machine Company grew to manufacture crawler tractors.
4/22/2010 10:26:42 AM
Ohio collector may own the only restored and operational Shelby tractor in existence.
3/1/2010 11:05:25 AM
Economic and personal misfortunes led to the brief production of the Curtis combine.
2/22/2010 11:38:04 AM
While many tractors claimed to do it all, only two lived up to the “universal” billing.
1/19/2010 9:40:55 AM
Collector focuses on antique machinery built in the Buckeye State.
11/19/2009 4:52:20 PM
I recently read a neat little book titled The Man Behind the Plow: Robert N. Tate, Early Partner of John Deere.
Written by Connie Fairfield Ganz, Tate’s great-great-great-granddaughter, the story is based upon extensive diaries kept by Mr. Tate. These diaries covered events from his birth in England on May 31, 1804 (written much later), through Jan. 7, 1883, about three years before his death on March 7, 1886.
10/28/2009 9:48:24 AM
One of the largest and oldest independent farm implement manufacturers at the turn of the century is little known today.
8/26/2009 2:52:55 PM
Iowa businessman invents tractor after losing Waterloo Boy dealership.
8/26/2009 12:09:15 PM
Shortly after building his first grain thresher in the 1840s, George Frick formed Frick Co.
7/27/2009 3:07:55 PM
Fox River Tractor Co. shifted into production of ensilage harvesters.
7/23/2009 9:17:00 AM
Cub Cadet Serial No. 411 not regular production International Harvester Co. garden tractor.
6/30/2009 4:37:53 PM
Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s goal was to provide farmers with reliable, low-cost, efficient machinery. Enter the Economy tractor in 1931.
6/22/2009 11:00:19 AM
You’re forgiven if you never saw or heard of a Blue tractor, as only about 200 were built.
6/22/2009 10:18:47 AM
The one-man, two-way, all-purpose tractor from Nebraska.
4/13/2009 10:29:57 AM
The Happy Farmer tractor was part of the Hirshheimer empire.
1/27/2009 10:45:45 AM
From door to door to mail order.
11/19/2008 3:09:21 PM
Changing times and postwar needs forced Fordson to rethink its Model N: Enter the Major.
11/18/2008 3:36:09 PM
Finding a better way: Frustrated by steam rig, John Froelich innovated.
10/9/2008 10:49:41 AM
Early designer driven by experience rather than theory in developing unique, progressive tractor
10/9/2008 9:57:15 AM
Jeep-inspired tractor designed for Marshall Plan
8/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
One-of-a-kind restored relic is important link to the past for Minnesota company
6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
International Harvester's McCormick-Deering Farmall led the row crop tractor revolution.
4/4/2006 12:00:00 AM
The only known example of the Hamilton-Fageol Walking Tractor, an articulated tractor that mimicked the gait of a horse.
12/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
The Wheel Horse not only spurred generations of garden tractor designers of virtually all makes, but also captured the fancy of a group of loyalists who now meet once a year in Pennsylvania to celebrate the little red horses.
6/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Circa-1918 4-cylinder Dain All-Wheel-Drive tractor, the only known complete unit, put on permanent display at John Deere Collectors Center.
2/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
John Deere company namesake set the course for the farm equipment giant.
10/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
A few manufacturers tried to make the transition easier for farmers by building tractors that were started, stopped and steered by reins, just like a team of horses. An unlikely example of these manufacturers turns out to be a present-day automotive giant.
3/1/2003 12:00:00 AM
From industrial revolutionary to rusty relic: Rumely remembered 150 years later
9/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
A wartime gamble pays off for Massey-Harris in a big way.
2/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Farquhar had an interest in mechanics and, by his own account, decided early on to make a lot of money.
10/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
International Harvester's Farmall led the revolution for a general-purpose row-crop tractor.
5/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Peculiar pre-1920 tractor names were result of fierce competition and desire to stand out.
6/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
The Bryan steam-powered tractor operated at three to four times greater pressure than did steam traction engines.
5/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Although the Fate-Root-Heath Co. may be best known for its Silver King tractor line, the company also made hand-crank corn shellers.
5/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
GM responded to Ford's Fordson with the Samson and Iron Horse.
8/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
While McCormick-Deering was never a "company" itself, as a well-known name of a line of tractors and farm machinery it helped make International Harvester Co. into an industry giant.
5/1/1977 12:00:00 AM
Gasoline-powered motor vehicles in Lancaster County.
11/1/1953 12:00:00 AM
A look at early steam tractor design and some of the oddest tractors in the early days of steam power on the farm.
3/1/1953 12:00:00 AM
John Deere traces its origins to the 1800s, John Froelich and William Mann.