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Re: Re: Re: When did Traction Engine become Tracto
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Posted by Joe Evans on February 02, 2004 at 14:50:17 from (209.41.235.189):
In Reply to: Re: Re: When did Traction Engine become Tractor ? posted by RZ(Wa) on February 02, 2004 at 14:32:13:
Well...what are books for other than looking at a fact again and seeing you had it screwed up! The Hart-Parr part is correct. The time frame is not. According to The Proud History of Agco Tractors by Norm Swinford, this book quotes from another source, The Agricultural Tractor: 1855-1950 by R. B. Gray. A Hart-Parr sales manager is credited with the word tractor as he didn't like traction engine for the advertising copy. The time frame is 1906. Another reference in the Agco book is that that term tractor appeared in patent no.425,600 in 1890, but it is unlikely the term tractor was publicized.
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