Inventors and manufacturers of the tractor, the engine-driven farm vehicle that replaced horses and oxen for drawing ploughs, harvesters and other implements. Early designs ran on gasoline and on crawler tracks, and tractor makers built some of the largest farm machinery companies. A person belongs here when their cited article names them as the inventor or maker of a tractor or of a tractor company.
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Benjamin Holt (Wikipedia)
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Benjamin Leroy Holt (January 1, 1849, December 5, 1920) was an American businessman and inventor who patented and manufactured the first practical crawler-type tread tractor.
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John Froelich (November 24, 1849, May 24, 1933) was an Iowan inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the first stable gasoline-powered tractor with forward and reverse gears.
Charles Walter Hart (Wikipedia)
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Together with Charles Henry Parr, he founded a company that produced a commercially successful line of gasoline-powered tractors.
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