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  2. List of traction engine manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    ~American Engine Co. American-Abell Engine and Thresher Company, Toronto, Ontario [8] Amongst other models, built three-wheelers with a single wheel mounted on a fork perch bracket beneath the smokebox. [9] Ames Iron Works ~Atlas Engine Works; Aultman Co. Aultman-Taylor Machinery Co. Avery Power Machinery Co., Peoria, Illinois; A.D. Baker Company

  3. Is that a scam? How to recognize and report fraudulent behavior

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    Below are common scams the New Jersey Department of Consumer Affairs warns of. Common phone scams: IRS scams: threatening legal action if you don't pay for IRS or credit card related claims.

  4. Traction engine - Wikipedia

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    A traction engine is a steam-powered tractor used to move heavy loads on roads, plough ground or to provide power at a chosen location. The name derives from the Latin tractus, meaning 'drawn', [1] since the prime function of any traction engine is to draw a load behind it.

  5. Steam tractor - Wikipedia

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    Steam traction engines were often too expensive for a single farmer to purchase, so "threshing rings" were often formed. In a threshing ring, multiple farmers pooled their resources to purchase a steam engine. They also chose one person among them to go to a steam school, to learn how to run the engine properly.

  6. Avery Company - Wikipedia

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    An advertisement for the Avery Company in Tractor and Gas Engine Review, January 1921. Its product line for 1921 included tractors, trucks, threshers, plows, motor cultivators, and other implements. In 1912, the entire Avery Company plant covered more than twenty-seven acres.

  7. List of scams - Wikipedia

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    A consumer inquires about a payday loan or short-term credit online and is asked for a long list of personal information. The lender is a shell firm; the loan might never be made, but the victim's personal information is now in the hands of scammers who sell it to a fraudulent collection agency.

  8. Consumer Reports - Wikipedia

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    Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.

  9. Charles Burrell & Sons - Wikipedia

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    The largest engine produced by Charles Burrell & Sons was a Road Locomotive produced for the William Kerr of Mavisbank in Glasgow. Works number 3419, the engine was named "Clyde" and completed in October 1912. Clyde was a special order, built specifically for the haulage of enormous loads across the West of Scotland.