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TITAN RESCUED FROM A WATERY GRAVE

By Ray Twillman

R.I Box 204, Marthasville, Missouri 63357 (From an interview with E. Leim kuehler)

I am sure that most of you fellows out in engine land have dreamed at one time or another of finding a rare or unusual engine or tractor somewhere. This is an unusual but true story of the locating and restoration of a 1917 two-cylinder Titan tractor that should stimulate your imagination a bit.

This story about the tractor in question begins some 60 or more years ago when the original owner took delivery of the then-new Titan from a railroad car at Bay, Missouri. He then used it several years for farm work, primarily for plowing and running a separator. Later it was needed to run a pump in a Tiff or Barite open-pit mine in extreme southern Cole County. It was lowered along side of a vertical step-off by means of a cable anchored to a large oak tree. It did ...

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