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This is a list of companies that formerly manufactured and / or sold tractors. Some tractor and / or agricultural machinery companies have discontinued manufacturing, or were bought out or merged with other companies, or their company names may have changed.
In 1958 MTD entered the lawn and garden power equipment industry with the production of an 18-inch (46 cm) power rotary mower. In 1959 MTD began manufacturing self-propelled lawn mowers, garden tractors and other power equipment. In 1962 MTD purchased Sehl Engineering Ltd. of Canada which would later become MTD Products, Ltd. and then MTD Canada.
Two-wheel tractor or walking tractor (French: motoculteur, Russian: мотоблок (motoblok), German: Einachsschlepper) are generic terms understood in the US and in parts of Europe to represent a single-axle tractor, which is a tractor with one axle, self-powered and self-propelled, which can pull and power various farm implements such as a ...
Trevor the Traction Engine is one of the non-railway characters featured in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. Awdry. Appearing in several of the books, the traction engine was originally 'saved from scrap' by The Vicar of Wellsworth with the help of Edward the Blue Engine.
1910 - Yakov Mamin created tractor "Dwarf", later known as the "Russian tractor". However, mass production of tractors in Russia was launched only in the Soviet Union in the 20-30s. In 1917 the whole of Russia was 165 tractors 1918 - at Petrograd factory "Bolshevik" was organized small-scale production of crawler tractors.
These tractors featured three-point hitches, power steering and diesel engine options. Low-compression fuel options for kerosene and distillate were dropped. [1] [2] Most of the D-series tractors, except for the D21, had hand-operated, shift-on-the-go oil clutches, commonly referred to as a hand clutch. Allis-Chalmers marketed this arrangement ...
A PTO at the rear end of a farm tractor A PTO (in the box at the bottom) in the center of the three-point hitch of a tractor. A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate machine.
Share of the Ford Tractor Company, issued 12. June 1917. Ford Tractor Company was incorporated on March 15, 1915, by W. Baer Ewing and Paul W. Ford. [1] Prior to founding the company, Ewing worked in the insurance business. The choice of name has been assessed as deceptive by later commentators.