Hart-Parr 18-35 Oil King - Western Development Museum - Saskatoon, SK
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The Western Development Museum in Saskatoon is a place all old gearheads just have to visit when in the vicinity. They have dozens of tractors, many really rare ones.
Waymark Code: WMG73V
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 01/22/2013
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One will find the Western Development Museum at 2610 Lorne Ave, which is just off the Louis Riel Trail on the southern edge of Saskatoon.
The 18-35 Oil King, one of several models of large tractors manufactured between 1903 and 1919, had a Hart-Parr 12.9L (785.4 ci) 1-cyl kerosene burning engine. This "one lunger" produced 35 HP at the belt and 23 HP at the drawbar, ticking over at 500 RPM. Being what is known as a "square" engine, it had equal bore and stroke at 10 inches. Its coolant capacity totalled 120 qts. and the whole thing weighed 12,000 lbs. With 2 forward speeds and 1 reverse, it was probably capable of a ground shaking 3 or 4 miles per hour.
In the early years, Farm Tractors were referred to as gasoline traction engines. It was the Hart-Parr Company which determined to find a shorter name and soon decided on the name "tractor". The rest of the industry eventually adopted the name and it remains with us today.
Hart-Parr was founded in 1901 by Charles Hart and Charles Parr, both engineering students at the University of Wisconsin, in Charles City, Iowa. Hart and Parr are two of the early pioneers of gasoline tractor design. Hart-Parr was the first American manufacturer to put gasoline tractors into production in 1903, and can make a claim to being the first in the world (the English Ivel firm also began production that year). In 1929, Hart-Parr merged with Oliver Chilled Plow to form the Oliver company.
Engine Type: Internal Combustion
Wheel Type: Steel
Make: Hart-Parr Company
Model: 18-35 Oil King
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