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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
REFLECTIONSA Brief WordBy C.H. WendelAs we assemble this column in early November, a touch of snow has descended upon us here in the midwest, namely, Iowa. We'll grant that you won't see this copy until early December, but if you haven't already, be sure to check those engines and tractors to be sure they are drained. Don't forget little things like the petcock on the bottom of the waterpump. We're continuing to work on our Standard Catalog of American Tractors, and once again ran across our file on the Ford Tractor Company at Minneapolis. Rated as an 8-16, the Ford of 1915 sold for $350. By 1917 it was rated as a 10-20. Only a few were built, and they were never considered to be a roaring success. The main problem with the Ford Tractor Company was that newspapers, and eventually the courts, found it to be not quite so reputable as it might have been. Unfortunately, this ... 814 of 9052 characters shown.
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