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Ingersoll Equipment Company, Inc.(no connection to Ingersoll Rand) was formed when Jack Ingersoll purchased the garden tractor division from Case Corporation in late 1983. Case garden tractors came into existence in 1965, after the purchase of Colt Garden Tractors/Colt Equipment in late 1964. The motive behind the acquisition was a ...
The Briggs & Stratton Gasoline/Electric Hybrid Car – In 1980, at the tail end of the energy crisis, Briggs & Stratton developed the first gasoline-electric hybrid automobile concept car. "The Hybrid" was designed by Brooks Stevens , had six wheels and was powered by a twin-cylinder 16 hp (11.9 kW) Briggs & Stratton engine and a large bank of ...
Carter Machinery, founded in Virginia in 1927, is a producer of lubricants for engines and other mechanical purposes. By the 1980s, it also became the largest dealer in Caterpillar equipment in the United States, [1] and it was acquired by Caterpillar, Inc. in 1988.
The Oliver 500 was a David Brown 850 tractor, restyled as an Oliver, and marketed to the same general market segment as the Oliver 550.The 500 used a David Brown engine with 154-cubic-inch (2,520 cc) displacement with a six-speed transmission, produced in gasoline and diesel versions.
The engine is a V-twin four-stroke, 895 cc (54.6 cu in) or 993 cc (60.6 cu in) displacement, fan-driven air-cooled, gasoline engine design.The larger displacement is achieved by increasing the stroke from 78 to 87 mm (3.1 to 3.4 in), but using the same bore of 86 mm (3.4 in).
The Ford N-series tractor helped revolutionize modern mechanized agriculture with its Ferguson three point hitch. A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.
The Old Chapel and its cemetery are located at the center of Briggs, it is home to the graves of the Burwell, Meade, Page and Randolph families, among others. U.S. Route 340, Virginia State Route 255 (Bishop Meade Highway), Lanham Lane, and Briggs Road are located in Briggs.
State Route 55 (SR 55) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia.Known for most of its length as John Marshall Highway, the state highway runs 64.71 miles (104.14 km) from the West Virginia state line, where the highway continues as West Virginia Route 55 (WV 55), east to U.S. Route 29 (US 29) in Gainesville.