Object Details
- Associated Name
- Froelich, John
- Deere, John
- Deere & Company
- Waterloo Gas Engine Company
- Description
- The Waterloo Boy was the last tractor produced by Deere and Company before adopting the John Deere brand with the Model D. This 1918 Waterloo Boy draws 25 horsepower from its two-cylinder engine. The engine ran on kerosene, a fuel that farmers could acquire more easily and less expensively than gasoline. This tractor has two forward gears and one reverse gear and spent much of its working life around Kloten, North Dakota.
- The Waterloo Boy is part of the legacy of John Froelich, of Froelich, Iowa, who built the first gasoline engine tractor in 1892. Deere and Company acquired Froelich's Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company in 1918 and continued to improve on Waterloo Boy tractors until 1923.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Deere and Company, Moline, Illinois, through George F. Neiley
- 1918
- ID Number
- AG.67A02
- catalog number
- 67A02
- accession number
- 270864
- Object Name
- Tractor, Model N, "Waterloo Boy"
- Place Made
- United States: North Dakota, Kloten
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Agriculture
- Agriculture
- Exhibition
- Waterloo Boy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_857021
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-ac3b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
