THE Traction Engine has of recent years become a prominent factor in the success of Australian farmers. In some country districts the engines are used extensively to drive big chaff-cutting plants, and later on are hitched to waggons loaded with chaff ready for the market. The iron horse hauls heavy loads satisfactorily and expeditiously along the unmade country roads when they are dry and hard, as they usually are during the late spring, summer, and autumn months. Steam power traction engines have been used for many years to drive threshing and chaff-cutting plants, and haul them from place to place, and the lighter type oil tractors are coming each year more generally into favour. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wed 1 Jan 1913, Page 18
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