This 1928 Twin City 27-44 Road King (serial no. 250417) is one of 839 Road Kings built by Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co. As a kid, I was fascinated with fixing and modifying toys. I grew up buying, ...

A 1963 CJ5 equipped with a 1946 Newgren hydraulic lift. Eighty years ago, a new kind of vehicle drove into the world. Months before the U.S. entered into World War II, military leaders had a plan to ...

When we talk about farming with mules decades ago, we tend to picture small operations. An Iowa ranch established in 1896 is a noteworthy exception. William P. Adams was an unlikely farmer. Born in ...

To the farmer, the invention of the tractor was almost as important as the invention of the reaper. It was Cyrus Hall McCormick’s reaper, introduced in 1831, that initiated the power farming era, when ...

Shely fiber breaker. More than 120,000 pounds of hemp fiber was needed to rig the 44-gun USS Constitution, America’s oldest Navy ship affectionately called “Old Ironsides.” Nearly 55 tons of fiber was ...

Engine exhaust on all but very early production Regulars was routed down through a small cast iron muffler. The combination manifold routed hot exhaust over the intake passages, which warmed the ...

This New Holland Model 320 is representative of later, more streamlined hay balers that used an in-line plunger. The New Holland Model 66, introduced in 1953, was the industry's first PTO-powered ...

The Great Depression that caused so much trouble in the world during the 1930s ended only with the boom caused by World War II. For American farmers however, the downturn began shortly after World War ...

A rare Massey-Harris Model 50, a product resulting from the dealer friction caused by the Massey-Harris/Ferguson merger. M-H dealers wanted a tractor like the Ferguson 35, so M-H sheet metal was added ...

Hayracks were an essential part of farming and ranching operations until combines replaced threshing machines and hay was switched to bales. The tall ladder-like ends and low sides are designed for ...

Perry Coziahr with some of his 60 Marx wind-up climbing toys. For years, Louis Marx & Co. toys were imprinted with the slogan “One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” Toys cherished during ...

State and county fairs have long been a popular venue for tractor manufacturers to show off the latest and greatest. This Oliver 88 – a 1948 model – came along well after 1937, when the Oliver Farm ...