antique massey harris tractor


Massey-Harris No. 2 - MH2 TOP
Massey Harris learn from it's experience, choosing this time to manufacture tractors for itself, under license. Dent Parrett designed a tractor that he introduced in 1913. Prototypes, powered by Buda engines, were well received. It was his 12-25 that Massey produced in Canada. Massey-Harris modified Parrett's next tractor. But Henry Ford's Fordson was available in Canada and it was advanced over even Massey's new MH-3; price wars with International Harvester in 1922 soon put Parrett out of business in the United States.
The Wallis Tractor Company

The Wallis Tractor Company of Racine, Wi, pioneered unit construction in tractors. Wallis patented their one-piece curved boilerplate frame for the Wallis Cub in 1913.The advantages of a one-piece frame, as Henry Ford also realized, was in material savings and in the permanent alignment of all shafts and bearings in the engine and transmission. The Wallis tractor was popular in the 1920s and became the basis for the subsequent Massey-Harris tractor after Canada's Massey-Harris bought out Wallis in 1928.

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