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The company was founded by William J. Niederkorn in 1922, and started building walk-behind two-wheeled tractors in 1939. Between 1941 and 1945, due to World War II , Simplicity Manufacturing temporarily halted production of lawn and garden products, and manufactured electric fence controllers and external surface grinders to satisfy the War ...
Logo used for the Jacobsen 4-Acre mower. In 1945 Jacobsen Manufacturing purchased the Worthington Mower Company of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, known for its gang mowers for golf courses, parks and airfields. [2] In 1949 the new subsidiary began making Model G tractors using Ford tractor components, mostly for use in parks and golf courses. [3]
By 1956, the business had become very successful. The company began to build a range of small to large lawn and garden tractors, in addition to a line of riding lawn mowers. A characteristic of the products was their standardization through the years. The most popular model and year was the R-J58 Wheel Horse 1958, it came without a mowing deck ...
Riding lawn mowers vary quite a bit from model to model. There are small rear-engine mowers for yards up to 1 acre, and lawn tractors and zero-turn lawn mowers that will make quick work of larger ...
In 1958 MTD entered the lawn and garden power equipment industry with the production of an 18-inch (46 cm) power rotary mower. In 1959 MTD began manufacturing self-propelled lawn mowers, garden tractors and other power equipment. In 1962 MTD purchased Sehl Engineering Ltd. of Canada which would later become MTD Products, Ltd. and then MTD Canada.
IH Cub Cadet was a premium line of small tractors, established in 1960 as part of International Harvester. The IH Cub Cadet was a new line of heavy-duty small tractors using components from the previous Cub series tractors. [1] Cub Cadet loader. During the 1960s, IH Cub Cadet was marketed to the owners of rural homes with large lawns and ...
Ariens entered the lawn and garden market in 1958 with its first riding lawn mower. In 1963 Ariens built and opened a 23,000 square foot manufacturing plant in Brillion, Wisconsin, to ramp up production. In 1977 Ariens built a new metal fabrication plant in Brillion, Wisconsin. Until 1982 Ariens had focused mainly on the residential mower ...
This is a list of companies that formerly manufactured and / or sold tractors. Some tractor and / or agricultural machinery companies have discontinued manufacturing, or were bought out or merged with other companies, or their company names may have changed.