Description: Rock Island, 1912 – 1937: Tractors, Implements, Gasolene Engines, Nebraska Tests, and more!, compiled by Alan C. King, published by King’s Books, Radnor, OH, 1993. 8½ x 11 softcover, 28 pages. Except for some light soiling of the front and back covers, this book is in excellent, like-new condition. King delved through hundreds of old farm magazines, collecting thousands of advertisements and articles, to compile his amazing series of monographs. This is Monograph Number Two, which presents tractors, implements, and gasoline engines of the Rock Island Plow Co. King notes in his introduction that the Rock Island Plow Co. dates back to a company called Buford & Tate, which began before the Civil War. The name was changed in 1882. Besides its line of several dozen horse-drawn implements, the Rock Island Plow Co. in 1914 began selling, under the Rock Island name, gasoline engines manufactured by Alamo Gasoline Engine Co. in Hillsdale, Michigan. Rock Island also sold under its name tractors produced by the Heider Tractor Co. In 1916, Rock Island bought out Heider, but tractors continued to be sold under the Heider name until 1929. “One of the most fascinating aspects of this tractor line,” King writes, “was the ‘friction drive’ employed. This method eliminated the need for a complicated transmission, was easy to maintain in the field, and provided ample power.” In 1937, the Rock Island Plow Co. was purchased by J.I. Case Company. The booklet provides samples of advertising for Rock Island tractors, plows, spreaders, harrows, cultivators, hay machines, corn planters, gasoline engines, and the “Great Western” cream separator.
Price: 32 USD
Location: Mebane, North Carolina
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