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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 ...
In 1890, the Case Company expanded to South America, opening a factory in Argentina. In 1891, the company's founder died. By this time the Case company produced portable steam engines to power the threshing machines, and later went into the steam traction engine business. By the start of the 20th century, Case was the most prolific North ...
Irish songwriter John Duggan [6] immortalised the threshing machine in the song "The Old Thrashing Mill". [7] The song has been recorded by Foster and Allen and Brendan Shine . On the Alan Lomax collection Songs of Seduction (Rounder Select, 2000), there is a bawdy Irish folk song called "The Thrashing Machine" sung by tinker Annie O'Neil, as ...
Jerome Increase Case (December 11, 1819 – December 22, 1891) was an early American manufacturer of threshing machines.He founded the J. I. Case Company which has gone through many mergers and name changes to today's Case Corporation. [1]
The company was known for producing threshing machines, regarded as among the best available. [citation needed] From 1889 they also made traction engines, [1] such as the Foster Wellington and Showman's road locomotives. [1] Foster were involved with Bramah Joseph Diplock, inventor of the Pedrail. In an account of the demonstration of a Pedrail ...
Harvesting, threshing and curing broomcorn has to be done in small batches, and that takes people, not machines, to do. Those people often were migrant workers who would harvest broomcorn in Mexico.
Marshall, Sons & Co. was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848. The company was based in the Britannia Iron Works , Gainsborough , Lincolnshire . Early production was of steam engines and agricultural machinery .
The company began building portable steam engines in 1845, and added threshing machines to their range in 1849. These agricultural products formed the core of the business, and resulted in Clayton & Shuttleworth becoming one of the leading manufacturers of such products.