The Iron Mule

The legendary plow smith was long since departed when management at Deere & Co. decided that they needed to be in the tractor business. ...

What did Elgin watches  and this Du-All tractor have in common? Answer: Stanley Wilbur Shaw. Shaw was another of those talented...

There are automotive aficionados who will say that 1957 was a banner year for car design. I don’t know about that but looking at this Minnea...

I wonder how many residents of the Carolinas today know that the Piedmont of NC and the Upstate of SC had high speed electric rail service b...

The business card he handed me read, Kirk Kahler, “Vintage Garden Tractor & Horse-drawn Farm Equipment Collector”. Fair enough, he does ...

Cornelius Aultman got an early start on his career. At the age of fourteen he went to work with an uncle as an apprentice millwright. For re...

What was to become Baker Manufacturing Co. dates back to 1872 when Allen S. Baker and Levi Shaw began to develop a rotary steam engine. In 1...