Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Geiser Manufacturing Company Peerless Traction Engine at Antique Powerland

IMG_7932 Peerless Traction Engine at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 4, 2007
Peerless Traction Engine at Antique Powerland, August 4, 2007

Peter Geiser starting building farm equipment in the 1850s. The Geiser Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1869 in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania and the Peerless traction engine was introduced in 1881. An example of the Peerless is pictured here. The company declared bankruptcy in 1939.

IMG_7933 Peerless Traction Engine at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 4, 2007
Peerless Traction Engine at Antique Powerland, August 4, 2007

For more information about the Geiser Manufacturing Company, see the Allison-Antrim Museum's Geiser Manufacturing Company History or Steam Traction Magazine's Short Chronological History of the Geiser Manufacturing Company and History of the Geiser Plant at Waynesboro, Pennsylvania in 1903.

IMG_7934 Peerless Traction Engine at Antique Powerland in Brooks, Oregon on August 4, 2007
Peerless Traction Engine at Antique Powerland, August 4, 2007

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