...Case Tractors

Case Tractors                                                                                                   Back to: US Tractor Pulling So you are interested in Case tractors.  You'll find Case Tractors history below, as well as used Case tractors and parts available right now on-line.  You can bid on them and get a better deal than at a retail parts or lawn equipment store. Case Tractors traces its history way back into the 1800s. Jerome Increase Case started a company in Rochester in 1842, then moved to Racine, Wisconsin where he began manufacturing threshers. In 1853, Case accepted three partners to form the J.I. Case & Company. The Case eagle trademark, "Old Abe," was created in 1865 and is patterned after a bald eagle mascot that served in the Civil War. The first gasoline engine Case tractors appeared  in 1892, when William Paterson of Stockton, California made an experimental tractor engine for Case Tractors.   The early Case tractor engine ran, but not well enough to be produced. Case built their first steam engine  which was pulled by horses in 1869.  By 1876 they had developed their first steam traction engine, which led the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company to build steam-powered Case tractors in the 1890's and was among the first to make the gasoline engine tractor. By the early 1900s, Case tractors began being fitted with engines purchased from the Davis Motor Company in Milwaukee.  In 1913, Case made their own engines for Case tractors.   Case Tractors expanded by merging with Grand Detour Plow Company in 1919, and by later purchasing the implement plant of the Emerson-Framingham Corporation of Rockford, Illinois in 1928.  Eventually, Case Tractors were taken over by the Massey-Harris Company of Toronto, Canada. Case today still manufactures heavy equipment for construction. The following short movie has a couple Case tractors in it: Farm Tractors Video Copyright 2006-7 USTractorPulling.com and  Angels & Ghosts, LLC