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noncompos
06-17-2007 13:28:26
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Re: vintage tractors in reply to many interests, 06-16-2007 20:47:42
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Can"t tell you very much; tractor reference books show (per my scribbled notes-can"t afford to buy copies)a Wichita tractor built by Wichita Falls Motors Co., Wichita Falls, Texas. Models listed were apparently an 8-16, 1917 or so, with a Gile 2cyl opposed, and a 20-30, 1920-21 or so, with a Beaver (LeRoi) OHV 4cyl 41/2x6. Apparently it was a low-prod make; only one of my period parts catalogs lists a Wichita tractor, a 15-30, no years, with a Beaver JA motor, listed as a 41/2x6. It"s possible the 20-30 and the 15-30 mentioned was the same model. The same company built Wichita trucks, roughly 1911-32, more successfully, there being various truck listings. Mroz"s truck book doesn"t mention any tractor production, but it"s limited to truck info. Something somewhere noted there"s occasionally confusion with a tractor called the Mid West or Midwest, built by the Wichita Tractor Co, Wichita, Ks, which, oddly enough, apparently produced a 2cyl horizontal 8-18 and/or 9-18 about the same time as the Wichita.
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