Farquhar Steam Engine at Antique Powerland on August 4, 2007
Arthur Briggs Farquhar starting working as a apprentice for farm manufacturer W. W. Dingee and Company of York, Pennsylvania in 1856. In 18 months, he bought a stake in the company using an advance from his father and became a partner. The company was renamed the Pennsylvania Agricultural Works. Eventually Farquhar led the company, and it was renamed the A. B. Farquhar Company in 1889. By that time stationary and portable steam engines, like the one shown, and traction engines were the company's main products, though it later expanded into gas engines and tractors. The tractor line was sold to the Oliver Farm Equipment Corporation in 1925, and rest of the company was sold to Oliver in 1952.
Farquhar Steam Engine at Antique Powerland on August 4, 2007
For more information, see Steam Traction Magazine's Company History: A. B. Farquahar and Short History of the A. B. Farquhar Company.
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