Steam Traction Archive
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January 1952
STEAM DOINGS ON THE WEST COAST
Steam traction engine to power the Best combined; harvesters.""
MR. LEONARD VISITS MT. PLEASANT
6 H.P. Nichols and Shepard attracted many onlookers.""
CANADIAN NOTES
John McCloskey had his invention patented in 1881""
AN INTRODUCTION TO BOILER REPAIRS
information regarding repairs that can lie made on traction engine boilers""
ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH RALLY
Rally held in England""
THE 'GYROTILIER' ON THE ROAD
Diesel powered rotary cultivators of rather large size""
THE 'LIFU' STEAM CAR
The 'LIFU or HOUSE steam car manufactured by The Steam Car Company""
AN OMISSION
Grandmas Attic and Hoby Show""
May 1952
FROM EMBRYO ENGINEER TO COUNTRY DOCTOR
The new separator was equipped with a self feeder""
THE HUBER TEETER BOARD
The Teeter Board was a stunt used by the Huber Company at Fairs""
CANADIAN NOTES
The Macpherson Machinery""
THE ENGLISH SOCIETY
Very interesting material concerning the news of the Society""
'NONE SO RARE AS A DAY IN JUNE'
Old Betsy was the companys only survivor""
LATEST ENGINE GROUP TO FORM IS WESTERN STEAM FIENDS ASSOCIATION
On January 12 ,1952, the Western Steam Fiends Association was officially introduced""
A TRIP
Advance Threshing Machine Company working in and out of the branch""
FRONT END REPAIRS
Repairs to the smoke box proper""
J. R. HARRISON, GRAIN WEIGHER INVENTOR, DIES
James R. Harrison an inventor and resident of Peoria""
BUBBLES CONCERTO
Harry Lindblad and his Case engine""
C. G. JOHNSON and SON
Johnson had run steam engines for 20 years""
July 1952
YE OLD TIME HORSE POWER THRESHING DAYS
Ye Old Time Horse Power Threshing Days""
SONG OF THE IRON-MEN
Song of the Threshing Machine the smell of its smoke""
BOILER FRONT HEAD REPAIRS
Illustrating Boiler Front Head Repairs""
THE BISHOP ARNOLD VALVE GEAR
B Arnold Steam Engine valve Gear""
FROM EMBRYO ENGINEER TO COUNTRY DOCTOR
Canton Monitor drive the Gaar Scott thresher in a hand feed demonstration ""
BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF MEMORY
Mown Timothy and clover and the delightful odor of hot horse flesh""
HOW IT WAS DONE -- AGAIN
Russell and coupled to Herbert and Harold Ottaway's 50 Case engine""
WE ARE ALIKE IN SOME THINGS
1951 I ran a Tuber like the one shown three years in Oklahoma""
September 1952
THE 1952 REUNION OF THE NATIONAL THRESHERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
Association began with 3 Chartered Greyhound Buses converging on Blaker Farm""
SWEET CORN FESTIVAL
Sweet Corn Queens at the National Sweet Corn Festival""
STEAM ENGINE JOE
Steam Engine Joe Rynda says he was to a sale of Old Engines""
WESTERN STEAM FIENDS ASSN.
Sixth Annual Threshing Reunion""
FROM EMBRYO ENGINEER TO COUNTRY DOCTOR
Civic Contacts""
COMPOST MAKER
Features of Model 1A Gardeners Friend Compost Maker""
BURIED ALIVE!
Engine was a 25 or 26 HP and 90 Horsepower in the Belt""
CANADIAN NOTES
The Macdonald Machinary""
ST. LOUIS 20, MO.
Repairing G. A. Turbine and Generator of 1500 K. W. 3600 R. P. M""
FROM NEBRASKA
Elmer and Mrs Ritzman at Blaker's Reunion""
ON THE SMOKEY END
Beginning of World War I, was Begged back on the Srnokey End""
SONG OF THE IRON-MEN
""The Saw Mill Whistle""""
POST CARDS
James Fleming Engine at Blaker's Reunion""
November 1952
M. M. BAKER LOOKS BACK AT 80
Walls of the Baker basement office covered with reminders of a busy life""
MODEL BUILDERS PAGE
A Page to the Model Makers""
HERE IS THE STORY, MR. SCARLAND
Story of the feeder who threw a boy into the thresher""
THRESHED 55 YEARS
Port Huron compound engine and Red River separators with Garden city feeders""
HOMER HOLP'S STEAMERS ""MAKE AND TAKE"" THE SHOW
Chamber of Commerce of Brookville, Ohio, stage a community picnic""
""A DAY IN MY DAYS""
Steuck had switched from steam to Oil Pull in 1919""
REPORT OF ZEHR'S CENTRAL STATES REUNION HELD AT PONTIAC
Total of 38 large steam engines in operation throughout the reunion""
MULTIPLE SALES
An operator who furnished a full crew to operate a steam thresher""
PIONEERS CLUB OF INDIANA
Pioneers Club of Indiana held their reunion at the Rush County""
MR. FORMAN RELATES AN INCIDENT
Inquiry for a 10 hp. engine and a plain 24"" threshe""
SONG OF THE IRON-MEN
""Pioneer""""
PIONEER ENGINEERS CLUB REUNION
Pioneer Engineers Club held at the Rushville County Fair Grounds""
POST CARDS
Flail was the first mechanical thresher""