Route 4, Huntington, Indiana 46750
Succcessful Old Tractors — Aultman Taylor Co. of Mansfield,
Ohio, another old steam engine company, got into the tractor
business in 1910, starting with the 30-60. A high-wheeled job with
a 4 cyl. Horiz. cross mounted engine, 7’/9′ at 500 RPM. It
had high tension mag. Mech. Lubrication and compressed air starter.
They used at first a square radiator with a round stack with
induced exhaust draft. In 1916 they changed and used the round
tubular cooling tank which was 42′ diameter, 36′ long and
had 196 two inch tubes and two 24′ fans. No fenders before
1913. They had a speed of 2.2 MPH and weighed 23,000#. Aside from
the cooling tank there was very little change from 1910 to 1924.
They were underrated in power. In 1920, Nebraska tests showed a
30-60 developed 80.1 HP on the belt and 58.05 HP on the drawbar,
using gasoline, though they could use kerosene also. Considering
their power, Aultman Taylor was considered very economical on fuel.
They were famous for pulling road grading machinery of all kinds.
About every county in Illinois and Iowa had one or more in use for
that purpose. In 1923 A&T had 123 tractors on road work in the
state of Minnesota. Having been in the steam engine and separator
business, they already had a good business organization, and branch
houses in the main cities in the West and Northwest.
The Montana Farming Corp., composed of Eastern Capitol farmed in
a big way, under the management of Tom Campbell near Hardin,
Montana in the 1920’s. This was land leased from the Crow
Indian Reservation and was about 30,000 acres, more or less. At the
start, part was grazing land and about 10,000 was dry land wheat
land. They later expanded up to around 30,000 acres of small
grains.
Tom Campbell was an energetic up and coming operator. He used
nearly thirty A&T tractors, all 30-60’s.
None of the implement companies could make implements big enough
or strong enough to suit him, so he made much of his own. This
could be a story in itself. In or around 1923, he established some
sort of a threshing record. In fourteen hours they threshed 4712
bushels of wheat with a 42′ case separator using a 30-60
A&T tractor. It took about fifteen bundle wagons and a small
army of men to do this. I have read that a Case steam engine was
the power that day, but I have seen several pictures of an A&T
tractor being used.
As to how popular Aultman Taylor was, and still is, just look at
the number around at our shows today. And they are selling for more
money today than when they were new. As near as I can find out
there were about 4600 30-60’s made, and I know of at least
fifty left today, and maybe more.
International Harvester had the Ohio Tractor Co. of Upper
Sandusky Ohio with offices in Akron, built tractors for them from
1906 to 1908, using I.H.C.’s Famous engines which were, of
course, one cylinder. They were made in 12, 15, and 20 H.P. sizes.
In 1909 they bought out the Ohio Tractor Co. and moved the
machinery to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the Titans were built and
to a new tractor factory in Chicago where the Moguls were built.
From 1910 to 1914, they made one cylinder Titans in 20 and 25 H.P.
at Milwaukee, and the same sizes in Mogul at Chicago. Very little
difference in the tractors.
Minneapolis Universal 20-40 owned by David Hanson, Elbow Lake,
Minnesota.
From 1910 to 1913 in Chicago, they built a 45 H.P. Mogul with a
two cyl. opposed engine, which from 1913 to 1917 was changed to
30-60 Mogul. They also at the same time made a 12-25 and a 15-30
one cyl. Mogul with a canopy top like the 30-60 had. Also a 12-25
two cyl. opposed Mogul. Also in both, Titans and Moguls, came
smaller sizes which I will deal with in a later article. As of now
we are talking of large tractors only.
Enclosed is a picture of a 1910 – 45 HP Mogul. I never saw but
one. Years ago there used to be two, running near Larimore N.D. If
there is still one in existence it would be an extremely rare
tractor. It had a straight top like a steam engine. Open tower
cooling, belt driven fan in upper right hand cooling tower. Hit and
miss governor and make and break ignition. It had a very narrow
fender. All my International literature indicates that it was only
made in 1910 and 1911 and then changed to the later type, with an
enclosed cab and top over the engine like the later 30-60’s. It
had open tower cooling with inducted draft from the exhaust, chain
driven water pump, throttling governor, full fenders. The 30-60
Mogul was built from 1913 to 1917. My friends, John Tysse of Crosby
N.D. and Wm. Krumwiede of Voltaire N.D. have the corner on the big
Moguls now. They have three 45 ‘s and one 30-60. They are a
curosity to see, but only about fifteen are left yet. I.H.C. claim
they built 20,385 Moguls, so mostly I am sure were 8-16’s and
10-20’s. They also claim 60,969 Titans were built and sold out
of the Milwaukee plant. They were not broken down as to size, so we
must know that at least 90% were 10-20’s, as they were very
popular until replaced by the McCormick Deering line. Price of a
30-60 Mogul was $2350, F.O.B. Factory. I know where there are still
six 45 HP Titans and fifteen 45 or 30-60 Moguls.
On Nov. 11, 1911 three 45 HP Moguls burning kerosene pulled a 55
bottom 14′ Oliver plow at South Bend Ind. at a demonstration.
On that same day one of those Moguls pulled an 18 bottom 14′
plow to set a record for number of plows behind one tractor, which
stood until a Holt Caterpillar later pulled a 24 bottom plow.
