Visitors to Naper Settlement on Tuesday, Sept. 5, can come early at 9:30 a.m. to see a fully restored 1953 Allis-Chalmers WD45 tractor and plow return to the grounds of the historic village at 523 S.
Harry Merritt, the general manager of the Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division, decided there was a large market for a row-crop tractor that could replace the horses being used on small farms. The popular ...
Allis-Chalmers introduced its WD tractor in mid-1948 as the replacement for the WC model. Although the WD retained the 4-cylinder, 201-cubic-inch Allis-Chalmers gasoline engine, design improvements ...
MACKINAW — Antique tractors dotted a harvested corn field Sunday as far as the eye could see. Running behind each other in rows, the old but still very reliable machines plowed the soil on the ...
Over twenty vintage tractors take part in a plowing event Saturday on a field north of Olivia. The West Central Antique Power Collectors sponsored the antique plowing bee. Over twenty vintage tractors ...