Row Crop 60 engine manufacturers

we have a 1946 RC 60 that was bought new by my uncle, right after the war. It has a Continental engine. I saw another RC 60 from about the same vintage and it has an Oliver engine..or so it says.

How many different engine makers supplied engines for these tractors? What is the horsepower for the 4 cylinder Continental engine?

My uncle is dead, the tractor was bought 12 years before I was born ('58) and all that remains is the physical evidence of the machine itself. It really doesn't matter to me who made the engine.....in my ignorance I figured the Continental was a common engine for the 60. I was visiting a friend who had a junked 60 sitting near his barn and on examination, seen that it had an Oliver engine. I recall (about 10 years ago) asking him about the Continental connection then, but he didn't know either.

This is a real can of worms and i'll try to find out what the spec. plate says on the engine block and let you fellows dig deeper.

The RC 60 was bought new in 1946, along with a set of pull type plows, a drag disk, and a JD sicklebar mower. I watched my uncle get wound up on the mower PTO, damn near took his leg off...actually tore his right calf muscle from the bone. I can vividly recall the sound of his overall gallus buttons snapping off as the PTO wound his britches legs up. Not nice.

My 70 year old father tore the engine down a few years back and has yet to put it back together, it's all down at his place.....if it was here I'd copy all the info off the spec. plate and post it here.

I THINK that perhaps right after the war, outside suppliers like Continental may have been tapped until in house production was re-established???