Word: tractor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, Kans., Nebraska's Cornhuskers, minus Clair Sloan, their backfield tractor, won the Big Six Conference title from Kansas Aggies...
Soon 1,000 Cologne craftsmen will find jobs in the first Ford manufacturing plant to be set up in Europe outside of the Fordson tractor plant at Cork, Ireland. Many a continental country has Ford assembly plants. These will now be supplied with parts from Cologne, a shorter haul than from Detroit...
...less than 15 months. In compliment to your company we shall probably call the city Austingrad." Austingrad will be the Detroit of Red Russia. Primarily it is intended as the Soviet focus of motor car manufacture, and $20,000,000 of the contract will be spent on car and tractor plants built for the latest type of straight line mass production. Three hundred motor vehicles per day will represent not peak but conservative average production. From Austingrad skilled Communist service station men will go out to spread through pastoral Russia the gospel of mechanics and motive power...
...peculiar part of the autogiro is, of course, its four horizontal vanes. Their orbit is 30 ft. in diameter, extending over the tail and beyond the tractor motor...
When he was ready to fly Señor de la Cierva started his tractor motor with his landing wheel brakes on. Then he had a bystander give his vanes a shove. They wobbled around about once a minute. He speeded up his motor and the propeller slipstream made the vanes rotate rapidly, about 130 r.p.m., according to their speedometer. The vanes vibrated. To smooth that out he idled his motor for five seconds. Then he released his brakes, sped up the motor again, taxied to his takeoff. The vanes were turning smoothly at 120 r. p. m. and creating...