Friday, January 17, 2025

There's an obscure brand

 


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  1. Right. When John Deere wanted to get into the tractor production business, they simply purchased the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co - who were already making & selling a successful line of gas/kerosene powered tractors. And the rest, as they say, is history...

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  2. Hoyt-Clagwell was my thought. Oliver Wendell Douglas liked his.

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  3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Gasoline_Engine_Company

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  4. They sure used big fat thick natural convection heat exchangers on those miss and hit engines, strange its mounted sideways like that.

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    1. The heat exchangers were massive, and had great thermal mass. The tubes were thick pipe hand soldered and the castings top and bottom were pretty thick.

      It's mounted sideways so that a belt driven fan from the main crankshaft could push air though it .

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  5. The guy is wearing a tie to drive a tractor...maybe a sales rep, but still...

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    1. Many farmers of that era wore suit and tie. It distinguished them from the farmhands.

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