The iconic British-built Field Marshall tractors have a history that goes back to the 1840s when William Marshall bought an old engineering works in Gainsborough, England. Marshall named the site the ...

Learn how one Michigan family maintains their antique tractor collection in active use as a way of preserving their legacy and traditions. Some antique tractors are trailer queens. Others, in their ...

Learn about Pastime Maytag washer history facts, the story behind Maytag’s first clothes washer, and the company’s eventual industry dominance showcasing American ingenuity and innovation. Over the ...

As the school day wears on, many students will count the minutes until being freed from the confines and structure of high school classrooms. So, can you imagine a group of students who voluntarily ...

When Delbert Miller learned that his wife’s great-grandfather had built a scale model working threshing machine, he was intrigued, but the well-preserved relic changed hands several times before ...

When retired high school teacher Joe Wurth learned of a vintage cider press tucked away in a barn in his hometown of Marcus, Iowa, he couldn’t have imagined where the history of the piece would take ...

Ohio’s Crawford County is on the eastern edge of America’s corn belt. While the county is steeped in agriculture history, the county seat of Bucyrus was home to more than two dozen manufacturing ...

James Bangert, Sedgwickville, Missouri, has shared with us a letter he found in his late mother’s papers. “It was sent to my dad in 1961,” he says. “He owned an International Model M at the time.” ...

Eighty years ago, a new kind of vehicle drove into the world. Months before the U.S. entered into World War II, military leaders had a plan to build hundreds of thousands of light trucks that could go ...

During the past three years, collecting antique wrenches has really taken off, says Don Lux of Janesville, Wis. “Wrenches have come a long ways,” the 69-year-old former International Harvester plant ...

It’s not a normal occurrence, in the 21st century, to drive past a cornfield and see a farmer combining with a small, orange New Idea Uni-Harvester. But ever since I can remember, my father has been a ...

From the time Hart-Parr began building tractors (a word said to have been coined by a Hart-Parr sales manager, who found it smoother on the tongue than “traction engines”), the company’s tractors were ...