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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...

locomotive engines used on railways, traction engines for heavy steam haulage on roads, steam cars (and other motor vehicles), agricultural engines used for...

supplying water for the steam engine, hauling away the freshly threshed grain and scooping it into the granary. Steam traction engines were often too expensive...

steam traction engines, plus building industrial, railroad and agricultural equipment. By 1909, the 21 acre plant had produced 18,000 farm, traction and...

37.904807°S 145.21062°E / -37.904807; 145.21062 The Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club (MSTEC) is volunteer club in Scoresby, Victoria, Australia...

notable companies that manufactured traction engines of any kind, including steam tractors, portable engines, and steam rollers. Borsig of Berlin, Germany...

English writer and steam traction engine designer. William Fletcher was a leading designer of Victorian and Edwardian steam traction engines. As of 2010[update]...

Burrell & Sons were builders of steam traction engines, agricultural machinery, steam lorries and steam tram engines. The company were based in Thetford...

treaded road wheels. The majority of steam rollers are outwardly similar to traction engines as many traction engine manufacturers later produced rollers...

years, based in Columbus, Indiana. It built some of the largest steam traction engines used in North America. Marshal Reeves was the inventor of a two...

late 1940s when Commander John Baldock decided to preserve some steam traction engines that were rapidly disappearing from British life. By the early 1960s...

as Hero's aeolipile as "steam engines". The essential feature of steam engines is that they are external combustion engines, where the working fluid...

electric power-generating industry steam turbines are not normally referred to as "live steam". Steamrollers and traction engines are popular, in 1:4 or 1:3 scale...

(1.8 m) into the earth. The first small steam traction engines, adapted from the design of stationary engines used to thresh wheat and gin cotton, weren't...

see portable engines working at traction engine rallies and steam festivals. At the Great Dorset Steam Fair, for example, portable engines may be found...

water for the engines. The group, then called La Porte County Threshermen, held their first show and reunion in 1957. Traction engines were the main feature...

wheels" when fitted to road locomotives, and were commonly fitted to steam traction engines. They are very similar to pedrail wheels, differing primarily in...

Later, especially in the early 20th century, steam rollers, fire engines, traction engines and steam wagons began to appear. At the peak of their popularity...

thermal engines- Internal combustion (gasoline, diesel and gas turbine-Brayton cycle engines) and External combustion engines (steam piston, steam turbine...

Rumely Company by 1887. In 1895, the line expanded to include steam-powered traction engines. Meinrad died in 1904, but his sons continued to manage the...