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Test 023: Titan 10-20, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

All tractors tested at the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory were certified by their manufacturers as being stock model machines, conforming to specifications filed with the application for test. No special or high-test fuels were used except as recommended by the manufacturer as necessary.

All results within the official tractor test report were actually attained in tests and are without correction or allowances for friction, temperature, altitude, etc. The results were initially accomplished with the tractor in charge of skilled operators employed by the University.

Unless otherwise noted, each tractor was apparently in good condition at the end of the testing …

Test 040: Avery 6 Cylinder Motor Cultivator, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

All tractors tested at the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory were certified by their manufacturers as being stock model machines, conforming to specifications filed with the application for test. No special or high-test fuels were used except as recommended by the manufacturer as necessary.

All results within the official tractor test report were actually attained in tests and are without correction or allowances for friction, temperature, altitude, etc. The results were initially accomplished with the tractor in charge of skilled operators employed by the University.

Unless otherwise noted, each tractor was apparently in good condition at the end of the testing …

Rules For Official Tractor Tests, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab, Agicultural Experiment Station

Nebraska Tractor Tests

The Nebraska Tractor Law known as House Roll 85, 37th session, which became effective July 15, 1919, was enacted to encourage the manufacture and sale of imporved types of tractors and to contribute to a more successful use of the tractor for farming.

It was thought that the best method of accomplishing these objects would be to require a tractor of each model sold in the State to be tested at the State University and to have the results of these tests made public. These tests will give reliable information on the power capacity and fuel consumtion of each tractor …

Rules For Tractor Demonstrations, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

The object of these rules, instructions and data is to make all tractor demonstrations of this kind comparable and of the greatest educational value. Anyone who has conducted tractor demonstrations in the past has realized the necessity of some standard rules to follow and those who afterwards have referred to the results, deplore the lack of uniformity in the demonstrations and the data. For those who have not had this experience will find that it is a great help to have satisfactory rules to follow.

The value of these demonstrations depends largely upon the accuracy of the data reported on …

Father Of Test Law Explains It, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

Nebraska State Representative Wilmot F. Crozier of Osceola, Nebraska, who fathered and pushed the tractor bill through the Nebraska State Legislature. On September 19th, 1919, he tells why he formulated the law and his story to Implement & Trade Journal.

Operator's Instruction Manual: Case Va, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

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Advertising Brochure: 1903 Mccormick Farm Equipment, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

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A Central Heating-Plant For The Rhode Island College, Albert Prince Kenyon

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

A proposal for transferring the University of Rhode Island’s heating system to a central structure that would ensure safety, financial savings and convenience.

How Electricity May Be Used To Operate Machinery, John Franklin Knowles

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Explores the uses of electricity in a machine shop in shifting from belt and shaft systems to the use of electric plants.