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Gaar, Scott & Co., was an American threshing machine and steam traction engine builder founded in 1849 [1] and based in Richmond, Indiana. The company built simple and compound engines in sizes from 10 to 50 horsepower. Farm machinery produced by the firm were advertised as part of "the Tiger Line" and used a tiger upon two globes as the ...
The Advance-Rumely Company of La Porte, Indiana was an American pioneering producer of many types of agricultural machinery, most notably threshing machines and large tractors. Started in 1853 manufacturing threshers and later moved on to steam engines. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. purchased Advance-Rumley in 1931. The company's main works ...
Rutenber studied the trade of mechanics and, about 1892, built a single-cylinder engine. By 1898, he produced the first four-cylinder engine to be manufactured in the United States. A six-horsepower, single-cylinder engine was used by Frank Eckhart in his 1900 prototype car that was the seed for the Auburn which used Rutenber engines until ...
Advance-Rumely Thresher Co., La Porte, Indiana ~Althaus Ewing & Co. ~American Engine Co. American-Abell Engine and Thresher Company, Toronto, Ontario [8] Amongst other models, built three-wheelers with a single wheel mounted on a fork perch bracket beneath the smokebox. [9] Ames Iron Works ~Atlas Engine Works; Aultman Co. Aultman-Taylor ...
Mainstay of the company before the GM takeover was the Sieve Grip tractor, a large and heavy three-wheeled vehicle with a low slung chassis on which the engine was placed central between the single front and straked rear wheels. The tractor was available with several engine sizes. 1914 Samson Sieve Grip 6-12; 6/12 hp single-cylinder engine
The massive 40-120 (and later 140) HP engines were brought out in 1908 and their two stories height allowed the driver (engineer) to see over the cross-compound engine. They built engines in nominal horsepower sizes: 13 hp, 16 hp, 20 hp, 25 hp, 32 hp and 40 hp. The "140" referenced above was the "brake horsepower."
The Rumely Oil Pull was a line of farm tractors developed by Advance-Rumely Company [1] from 1909 and sold 1910 to 1930. Most were heavy tractors powered by an internal combustion, magneto-fired engine designed to burn all kerosene grades at any load, called the Oil Turn. [2] Rumely Oil Pull, ignition & lubrication A running Rumely Oil Pull tractor
It made engines for Premier, Chalmers, Cletrac crawlers and Owen Magnetic cars. [2] They also made a V-12 engine for the 1917 Pathfinder and 1920 Heine-Velox, [2] as well as the 1916-1918 Austin, Hal and Kissel cars. [3] George Weidely and H.O. Smith, started the Premier Motor Manufacturing Company on December 24, 1902. [1]