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As I Saw It XVIIISuccessful Old Tractors. Over the years people have asked what was the most popular and most successful of the old tractors, starting from the first and up to around 1915. Knowing this could be a very controversial issue, I've always side-stepped the issue. Its natural for everyone to have his own favorite automobile, tractor, motorcycle, etc. Now I feel it is time to pick out some of the facts as they appear in history. These tractors may not be the earliest, but they were the first that were the most successful and most popular taken as a whole. Over the years I have talked to old dealers salesmen, repair men, owners, and from my own observation. In a 1901 American Thresherman, they announced that the Waterous Eng. Co. of St. Paul, Minn. were making fifty tractors for sale. They were not called tractors at that time but were called Gas Traction Engi... 757 of 4839 characters shown.
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