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Our coleman TRACTOR

By Arthur P. Adamson

6247 Euclid, Cincinnati, Ohio 45236

I grew up with a Coleman tractor on a farm near Coffeyville, Kansas. I have never heard of another Coleman tractor before or since. Perhaps you will be interested to know more about it.

I recently wrote to Richard Vogt of Enid, Oklahoma, to ask him about the Coleman. He replied in part, "The Coleman was manufactured in Kansas City, Missouri, and so far as I know there are no Coleman tractors in existence today."

The Coleman was manufactured in Kansas City, Missouri, by the Coleman Tractor Company in 1918, 19, 20. Its Climax engine had four 5x6 cylinders, cast in pairs, according to Encyclopedia of American Farm Tractors, by C. H. Wendel.

The 16-30 Coleman joined our family one summer day in 1926 when I was six years old. My father and I were delivered by a neighbor to a farm 15 miles away. F...

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