Hart-Parr Little Devil 15-22- 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: WMG76D
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 01/23/2013
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When, around 1913, there was a drift toward smaller tractors, Hart-Parr built a small one they called the Little Devil. It was their first really bad idea. Plagued with problems, a major one being its instability, every one manufactured was eventually recalled and production ceased, making them a real rarity today.
It was a 3-wheel unit with the single wheel being in the rear with the operator sitting off to the side of the wheel. It was rated as a 15-22. Built from 1914 to 1916, it had a Hart-Parr 5.5 Litre 2-cyl kerosene burner for an engine, producing 22 HP at the belt and 15 at the drawbar while running at 600 RPM. It was made with 2 forward and one reverse gear and weighed 6647 lbs.
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: Little Devil 15-22
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