TERNINGS STEAM SHOW
Some of the gas tractors at the 1985 Termings Steam Show, held
Labor Day Weekend each year, in Valley Center, Kansas. Notice the
covered tour wagons and the 40 HP Case getting ready to climb the
Case incline.
A cross-motor Huber which belongs to, and was restored by, Ernie
Schmidt of Fremont, Nebraska. It has a Midwest motor and runs a
threshing machine at the Papio Valley Show held in July of every
year 5 miles northwest of Omaha, Nebraska.
Ron Galletly of 19 Warwick Street, Richmond, Nelson, New
Zealand, is the owner of the 1944 WD 9 tractor. Ron says there have
been only three owners of the tractor, which has a serial number of
6532. Plow is a P & O Duncan, 4 farrow Sunbeam made in
Christchurch, New Zealand in 1946, and restored by Galletly.
‘I’m sure your subscribers would be interested to know
we restore old tractors and machinery here in New Zealand,
too.’ The pictures were taken at a ralley in 1983.
The GG General tractor is owned by Marshall Witter of 7881
Corner Rd., Mercersburg, PA 17236.
‘It all started by going to a local sheet metal shop one day
to see about getting some tin made for a Silver King we were
working on. The shop owner said it would be impossible to make, but
he had an old Silver King he would sell for parts. We bought it in
bits and pieces, never realizing ’til we got it home it
wasn’t really a Silver King, it was a GG General made by
Cleveland Tractor Co., makers of Cletrac crawlers.
‘The GG is the only tire tractor the company ever made and
it was only made 3 years (1939-41). After much piecing and fitting
and even buying another parts tractor, our work started to show
meaning. We found a Cletrac dealer who had some of the parts in his
attic loft. The tractor is powered by a 4 cylinder Hercules engine
and is rated at approximately 23 HP.
The 1913 5-12 Little Bull tractor was featured at the 1984
LeSueur County Show and appeared on the the show button that year.
Owners are LeRoy and Bill Thelemann, 521 Harriet Street, LeSueur,
MN 56058.
The tractor has a two cylinder opposed engine with battery &
coil ignition. It has a 3 wheel design with only one wheel drive.
The smaller rear wheel has a leveling device to keep the tractor
level when plowing, and the front wheel would automatically follow
the furrow.
The GG General tractor is owned by Marshall Witter of 7881
Corner Rd., Mercersburg, PA 17236.
‘It all started by going to a local sheet metal shop one day
to see about getting some tin made for a Silver King we were
working on. The shop owner said it would be impossible to make, but
he had an old Silver King he would sell for parts. We bought it in
bits and pieces, never realizing ’til we got it home it
wasn’t really a Silver King, it was a GG General made by
Cleveland Tractor Co., makers of Cletrac crawlers.
‘The GG is the only tire tractor the company ever made and
it was only made 3 years (1939-41). After much piecing and fitting
and even buying another parts tractor, our work started to show
meaning. We found a Cletrac dealer who had some of the parts in his
attic loft. The tractor is powered by a 4 cylinder Hercules engine
and is rated at approximately 23 HP.
The 1913 5-12 Little Bull tractor was featured at the 1984
LeSueur County Show and appeared on the the show button that year.
Owners are LeRoy and Bill Thelemann, 521 Harriet Street, LeSueur,
MN 56058.
The tractor has a two cylinder opposed engine with battery &
coil ignition. It has a 3 wheel design with only one wheel drive.
The smaller rear wheel has a leveling device to keep the tractor
level when plowing, and the front wheel would automatically follow
the furrow.