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CASE THRESHING MACHINERY CATALOGUE 1913
191349222Chicago-New York: Rogers & Company 1913. 1913. TRADE CATALOG WISCONSIN. First edition. 4to. Color pictorial stiff wrappers 84 pp. illustrated in black & white centerfold double-page color plate price list contents. This rare catalogue for the Case Threshing Machine Company issued featuring their traction engines portable engines gas & oil tractors threshing machines road building equipment and Case automobiles. Although Case had introduced their first gasoline tractor just 8 years before following the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition by 1912 they were winning tractor contests such as the 1912 Winnipeg Motor Contest. Jerome Increase Case 1819- 1891 began building threshing machines in 1847 in Racine Wisconsin and by 1869 had engineered and built Case Steam Engine Number One. Subsequently Case began producing a whole line of self-propelled traction engines portable engines twine binder machines separators stackers and more. Their road building machinery line-up included not only Case steamrollers but also rock crushers elevators screens and bins. In 1910 Case had purchased the Pierce Motor Co. and quickly began manufacturing the Pierce-Racine automobile and later the Case Auto employing Pierce Motor Company's 8000 dealers and agents worldwide. Case produced touring models sedans coupes and limousines as well as race cars with this catalogue featuring the Case 40 and the Case 30 Roadsters Touring Cars and Limousines. They ceased production of autos in the mid-1920s.; See: Case Construction Equipment History 2013; Leffingwell Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor Chapter 2; Bill Ganzel Wessels Living History Farm York Nebraska 2014. Front and rear covers lightly soiled tiny closed tears and light wrinkles to the fore-edges of six internal pages else a very good copy of a scarce catalogue. Rogers & Company], 1913. unknown
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