A New Tractor From Your Old Car (Feb, 1932)
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Feb, 1932
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A New Tractor From Your Old Car
EASY to BUILD…with SHAW Tractor Equipment
We Tell You How!
PRICES GREATLY REDUCED
Massive tractor wheels give firm footing on spongy soil
DOES ALL FARM WORK!
INCREASE profits—though prices are low—with a tractor. You can make a powerful dependable tractor—at low cost—from your old Model “T” or “A” Ford, Chevrolet and many other old cars— with SHAW Tractor Equipment. Does farm power jobs as well as expensive tractor! Pulls 16-inch plow, or two 12-inch plows, 7-foot disc, 1 or 2-row corn cultivator, large harrow. Also runs feed grinders, concrete mixers, saws and other belt machinery.New HIGH ARCH Model with 30 inches clearance straddles corn and other crops without touching. Cultivates 1 or 2 rows at a time. Easy to Attach SHAW Equipment in short time with monkey wrench and screw driver. You needn’t be a mechanic. We furnish all parts; easy-to-follow instructions. Will plow 5 acres per day.
Prices Greatly Reduced to meet present conditions. But subject to change any day. Act quickly! Write for details. Reduced Price. Easy Payment Plan, 10-day Trial Offer! Free Literature—Gives full information on SHAW Tractor Equipment—tells how SHAW Tractorized Car has made more money for hundreds.
SHAW MANUFACTURING CO.
Dept. MM2, Galesburg, Kans.
Otherwise know as a “Hoover wagon.”
My grandparents had one during the Depression… Many folks who bought cars in the 1920s couldn’t afford to operate them after the Crash - and such practical conversions were popular.
Comment by wellsprite — May 14, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
As a boy in the 1950s, I used my neighbor’s Model-T tractor. Even then, it was considered an antique oddity and everyone assumed it was self-made.
I do remember SHAW logo on the steering wheel and wondering what a “SHAW” was. Now 50 years later. the mystery of the tractor is revealed. I looooove the Internet!
Comment by Taro 3Yen.com — May 14, 2007 @ 10:35 pm
Cool. When I tire of my Prius, I know what I can do with it!
Comment by Rick Auricchio — May 15, 2007 @ 5:47 pm
Hello; Does anyone want one of these ??? Thanks Rick 1-520-906-1675
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