mercury industrial truck

swamper · May 12, 2010

hey lookin at fixin up an old mercuryidustrial truck at a museum i volenttere at it was ran at the old spadina train terminal in toronto and need to get it running for display i need to konw where to get parts for this it says spadina mp tractor #456 thanks for and info

rustyfarmall · May 13, 2010

(quoted from post at 14:46:21 05/12/10) hey lookin at fixin up an old mercuryidustrial truck at a museum i volenttere at it was ran at the old spadina train terminal in toronto and need to get it running for display i need to konw where to get parts for this it says spadina mp tractor #456 thanks for and info

I'm not sure on the industrial part, but down here in the states, we call them Fords, and up in Canada, you call them Mercurys.

swamper · May 13, 2010

no it says mercury and made in Chicago i'm not good in geagraphie but i'm sure thats in the us there buddy

rustyfarmall · May 13, 2010

Apparently we are not on the same page here. Maybe you can provide a description of said "industrial" truck?

noncompos · May 13, 2010

well, it might be the Mercury truck built 1910-1917 in Chicago...they were high-wheelers (big fragile-looking wood spoke wheels, like an old carriage) with an unidentified two cyl two cycle air cooled engine to 1912, when they apparently switched to a four cyl....
There was also a Mercury industrial "tractor" (the company apparently later a part of Pettibone-Mullikan) that shows up as loaders, forklifts and ??? in 1960's catalogs with Wauk FC and other engines...

noncompos · May 13, 2010

Didn't scratch around much, but if that's the Mercury from Chicago they also built the Bulley industrial tractor Chicago used for some snowplows etc. in the same years.
Several hits on Bulley tractor but nothing in the few I looked at identified engine (probably used same 2 and 4 cyl engine as the truck per a 1917 ring catalog: 41/4 bore, 5/16 ring, 3 ring piston on both 2 and 4 cyl).
That catalog set up by ring size, and for Mercury/Bulley ring size no engine builder's engine listed matched above specs; maybe made own?? or bought from another car builder??

swamper · May 14, 2010

motor is an old flat head 6 cyl and looks like a tractor. looks lokie it had plopw on front but then it say spadina M P tractor im thinking it came to work in toronto at a rail yard as bagage mover

swamper · May 14, 2010

looks like a tractor for moving cart around don't have a good picture of it right now

noncompos · May 14, 2010

From the desc of the engine I"m thinking you"ve got something from the Mercury Tow Tractor line, that at some point became part of Pettibone, now Pettibone Mullikan; Pettibone was in Chicago for many years and is now in a Chicago suburb (Des Plains) per their website.
But there"s also the possibility you might have one of the old Bulley/Mercury "tractors" that"s had a more modern engine installed to replace the original...they were apparently designed to push as well as pull.
If you"ll Google (advanced search, exact phrase) Bulley tractor, two Googlebooks hits from the teens will come up, one with pix as a snowplow and one with a pic showing a different pusher snowplow(??-odd looking) but good to compare with yours.
The few pix I could find of the Pettibone Mercury were very modern; I didn"t try to find when these Mercury tow tractors were first built, or when they were swallowed by Pettibone.
Reply (if you wish) to Bud [email protected]) so we don"t clutter the forum.

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