JOHN DEERE WATERLOO BOY 40 ft BOX - HO SCALE - "LANDING DEERE "

Description: ATHEARN Ready-To-RunHO Scale This is a 40 ft BOX CARPART OF THE 2001 ROLLING STOCK SET 5th in the CHRISTMAS SeriesTHESE WERE ONLY AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE SETThe set is being broken up and the cars sold individuallyThese are NEW never before out of the box Out - Of - ProductionDISCONTINUED By The ManufacturerLettered for:JOHN DEERE Featuring the 4 Legged LANDING DEERE with JD Advertising The Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company was the first company to manufacture and sell gasoline powered farm tractors. Based in Waterloo, Iowa, the company was created by John Froelich and a group of Iowa businessmen in 1893, and was originally named the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company. In 1892, Froelich built a successful gasoline-powered tractor, and the new company was given the opportunity to manufacture and sell the tractor Froelich designed. The tractor was not successful commercially, and of the four tractors built by the company only two were purchased, and these were later returned to the company by unsatisfied customers. In 1895, the company was sold to John W. Miller and renamed the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company. Miller decided to stop producing tractors and instead focus on building plain gasoline engines. BackgroundFollowing several years of research and development, the company once again began to manufacture tractors in 1911, but none would sell well until 1913, when twenty “Waterloo Boy” tractors were produced. In 1914 the company introduced the Model R Waterloo Boy. This tractor proved immensely popular, and over eight thousand were sold before the line was discontinued in 1923. The company also had great success with the Model N, which was introduced in late 1916. Despite the company's name, both the Model R and Model N burned kerosene for fuel. From 1915 the tractor was imported into the UK by Overtime Farm Tractor Co in a partially dissembled form. They then assembled the tractors and sold them under the Overtime name. By this time, several other companies had begun to build and sell tractors, but the Waterloo Boy was easily one of the most popular. In 1918, Deere & Company, a farm equipment company based in Moline, Illinois purchased the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company for $2,100,000. Deere & Company had been anxious to enter the growing tractor market, but its own initial designs had proved unsuccessful. Executives at Deere & Company decided to purchase the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Co. because field tests indicated that the Waterloo Boy tractor had the best performance. After the sale was completed, the company became known as the John Deere Tractor Company, but tractors produced by the company continued to be sold under the Waterloo Boy name until 1923, when the John Deere Model D was introduced. * Ready-to-Run * New Paint & Lettering Schemes, * Knuckle Couplers * Correct Trucks * Knuckle Couplers* Sliding Side Doors LINE FEATURES: Accurately Scaled from engineering DrawingsCrisp, Detailed, realistic letteringRALISTIC Satin paint finishStandard Draft gear box Detailed engineering plastic truck side framesLow-friction, nonmagnetic, needlepoint metal axlesNo lubrication requiredMagneticaly operated, body mounted couplers Hard to Find item We do combine shipping on multiple purchases. If you do a Buy It Now the transaction requires immediate payment for each item separately. What you need to do is put it in the shopping cart and then when you go to checkout it will recalculate the shipping and combine the items for you. If you pay first I am unable to make any adjustment because ebay has then taken its fees on the shipping as well. If you have a concern message me and I can work something out for you. THIS IS AN ASSEMBLED ItemThe item is NEW in the original box from old stock PERSONAL INVENTORY:Many of these unique items are from my personal inventory which was accumulated over the years. They are hard to part with but due to downsizing in retirement they too are looking for a good home which can appreciate and enjoy them.STORE INVENTORY:Having discontinued my Hobby Store and left frigid “Minne-Snow-Da” I have relocated and retired to the warmer part of the country, Down to Sunny TEXAS. I will be Liquidating the remaining stock. I will be listing items over the next year or so clearing them out. Please see the photos we take actual photos of each itemMost of these items are New in the box removed only to take photos of them.

Price: 39.95 USD

Location: Van, Texas

End Time: 2024-12-19T14:18:53.000Z

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