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  2. List of traction engine manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    ~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 Machinery Co. Avery Power Machinery Co., Peoria, Illinois; A.D. Baker Company

  3. Charles Burrell & Sons - Wikipedia

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    The first steam tractor was produced by Charles Burrell & Sons in 1905 following changes in Parliamentary legislation which allowed one-man operation of traction engines on the public highway, engines however could weigh no more than five tons unladen and were limited to a top speed of 5 mph (8.0 km/h). [11]

  4. Traction engine - Wikipedia

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    A traction engine is a steam-powered tractor used to ... The first traction engine focused on road haulage was offered for sale by Charles Burrell & Sons in 1856 and ...

  5. Russell & Company (manufacturer) - Wikipedia

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    By 1884, they had become one of the largest producers of steam traction engines, plus building industrial, railroad and agricultural equipment. [2] By 1909, the 21 acre plant had produced 18,000 farm, traction and stationary engines, plus 22,000 threshing machines. They also made sawmills, pneumatic stackers, feeders and road rollers. [3]

  6. Steam tractor - Wikipedia

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    Steam traction engines were often too expensive for a single farmer to purchase, so "threshing rings" were often formed. In a threshing ring, multiple farmers pooled their resources to purchase a steam engine. They also chose one person among them to go to a steam school, to learn how to run the engine properly.

  7. Richard Hornsby & Sons - Wikipedia

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    A number of Hornsby-built steam engines and tractors are in preservation, with "The Traction Engine Register 2008" listing 12 portable engines and 3 traction engines in the UK. [11] One example – no. 1851 built in August 1871 – is in the Science Museum's store at Wroughton, with another (example no. 7297) at the Museum of Lincolnshire Life ...

  8. J&H McLaren & Co. - Wikipedia

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    McLaren's first traction engine was built in 1877. [1] The company rapidly developed a range of traction engines, steam rollers, ploughing engines, agricultural implements and stationary engines. One of their forgotten achievements is the invention, British Patent 763 of 1880, of the traction-centre engine, for driving steam-powered fairground ...

  9. Reeves & Co. - Wikipedia

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    A Reeves-built steam tractor (at far right) being exhibited with other steam tractors at Expo 86. Reeves & Co. was an American farm tractor builder for thirty years, based in Columbus, Indiana. It built some of the largest steam traction engines used in North America. Marshall T. Reeves