The Baker Line

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A.D. Baker Co. officers
A.D. Baker Co. officers
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The introductory page of the company’s 1935 catalog
The introductory page of the company’s 1935 catalog
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The A.D. Baker Co. was founded by Abner D.
Baker in 1898, beginning with steam tractor manufacturing. When
steam was deemed an inferior mode of power as opposed to gas
engines, the company turned to building gas-powered tractors,
eventually equipping them with LeRoi engines. The company also
ventured into manufacturing threshing machines.

Baker prided itself by going above and beyond the expectations
set by the Nebraska tractor tests, and claimed that each purchase
of a Baker product would be “a reward of good judgement.”

Very few of these tractors are with us today, most likely due to
low production numbers and wartime scrap drives. Shortly after the
Second World War, production ceased and the struggling company
fizzled out and died.

The images on the next few pages come from an original 1935 A.D.
Baker Co. catalog supplied to Gas Engine Magazine by Harley Crow of
Carroll, Ohio.

  • Published on Oct 1, 2005
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