Eagle Manufacturing Company

The Eagle Manufacturing Company of Appleton, Wisconsin first entered the farm equipment market in 1906 with a 32-horsepower (24 kW) tractor. In 1899 the company was located at 671 Superior St in Appleton Wisconsin.[1] In 1904 it built a production facility designed by architect Wallace W. De Long.[2] It returned to the marketplace several years later, in 1929 offering a 20-35 Model E. Based on a two-cylinder traction engine design, the engine measured 8.00x9.00 inches in bore and stroke. A truly massive affair, it was rated at 20 drawbar horsepower and 35 belt-pulley horsepower. Eagle also built its Model H alongside the Model E from 1926 to 1930. With an identical 8.00-inch (203 mm) bore to the Model E, but a 1.00-inch (25 mm) longer stroke at 10.00 inches, the Model H created a brawny 40 horsepower (30 kW) at the drawbar. Eagle was one of the first tractor manufacturers to use a 6-cylinder engine. It switched from 2 cylinders to 6 cylinders in 1930.[3] Eagle built tractors from 1906, but halted production during World War II never to start its assembly lines again.[4][5]

Eagle 20-40 H (1928)

References
  1. Appleton City Directory 1899. p. 259.
  2. "Mills and Factories". The Improvement Bulletin. May 14, 1904.
  3. Eagle Tractor, Gas Engine Magazine, Retrieved December 1, 2007
  4. Agri chat, The free community farm bulletin board. Agrichat.com
  5. HISTORY OF EAGLE MANUFACTURING - Miscellaneous - Miscellaneous - Miscellaneous - Steam Traction Shopping
  • "Farm Tractors", by Andrew Morland
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