A motorized two-row cultivator tractor was designed and built. Designed and built, under Deere and Company sponsorship, a three-wheel, rear engined, front wheel steered tractor-only one was built before the design was abandoned.Ģ. Louis and Atlanta, Georgia, branches included the Big Four “30” gas tractor (20 draw-bar HP) in their sales catalog.ĭuring the period of 1912 to 1917, Deere and Company at Moline, Illinois, flirted with several different tractor designs and made a few different styles of tractors – for example:ġ. In 1912, several of the Deere branch houses and dealers wanted a tractor to sell. 1, a brief of the specifications and performance is as follows:Įngine 6-1/2″ bore x 7″ stroke, 750 r.p.m., 25.5 belt HP, travel speeds 2-1/3 and 3 mph forward, 2-1/4 mph reverse, using kerosene for fuel. In the spring of 1920, the Model N Waterloo Boy was the first tractor to complete the newly formed Nebraska Tractor Test. In 1917, the engine was revised to a 6-1/2″ bore, which was retained through 1925. This used a two-cylinder, horizontal, 5-1/2″ x 7″ engine. It appears that the two-cylinder horizontal engine arrangement was introduced in 1914 by the Waterloo Boy Model R, Style A, Serial No. Between 19, there were several engine arrangements. In 1912, along with their stationary engines, the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company started to build what became known as the Waterloo Boy. John Froelich and a group in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1893 organized the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company. The machine successfully completed a 50-day threshing run in Iowa and South Dakota, pulling and operating a 40 x 58 thresher. The tractor had one forward speed (approx. The 1892 Froelich tractor is listed as 20 HP with a 14″ bore, 14″ stroke, single cylinder, vertical type engine. Gray credits John Froelich with probably the first gasoline tractor with a record of operating success. 107), published a treatise entitled “Development of the Agricultural Tractor Through 1950.” Although there was considerable controversy on who introduced the first internal combustion engine traction machine, Mr. Agricultural Research Service (Information Series No. The theme of this conference is “Tracking the Deere.” In this session we will discuss a brief history of evolution of the gasoline tractor from the 1892 Froelich through the two-cylinder group ending in 1960.
The following paper was presented at “Tracking the Deere”, a conference for John Deere enthusiasts held in March 1991 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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