An early 1900s steam tractor at the 75th Rough and Tumble Threshermen's Reunion

Описание: These steam tractors are amazing to me. They are huge, loud, and powerful! Here is an early 1900s steam tractor passing by! This is The John Goodison Steam Traction Engine.

John Goodison, who had been the general agent for the bankrupt Sarni Agricultural Implement Assn. Co., together with G. H. Samis, purchased the interest and factory of the insolvent company. They
operated for a year, but under adverse circumstances, and were glad to enter into negotiations with the Sawyer & Massey Co. of Hamilton, Ontario, for the sale of their interests. Operations were continued as usual and John Goodison was retained as manager by the Hamilton firm.

John Goodison 20 HP steam traction engine built in 1922 by the John Goodison Thresher Company, and owned by Donald Shell of Ontario.

John Goodison was not satisfied with the new arrangement, and late in 1889 acquired sole ownership of the concern. The days of Sawyer & Massey control convinced him of the future of the
threshing machine industry, and he wisely abandoned the manufacture of reapers and plows and concentrated on threshing machinery.

For awhile he called his factory the Tunnel City Thresher Works, but soon changed it to the John Goodison Thresher Co. Meanwhile, the fame of the Mc Closky thresher was spreading, and in 1892 Mr. Goodison acquired the right to build these machines. He persuaded John Mc Closky to move to Sarnia and work in his factory.

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