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These little tractors are very rarely seen with only less than 10 in the hands of collectors. There has always been so little known about these tractors except they originated in New York. There is some association with Rome Mfg. but nothing has been proven conclusively. Only until this tractor came to light as a last minute consignment to The Pre-30 Auction has new information surfaced.
The seller attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in the early 1960's. There was a man named Charles Brown who was an inventor that had donated his estate to the university. The seller had come upon the tractor through a friend at Cornell and was able to purchase all these decades ago. Our seller stored the tractor away at a family farm for about 15 years. As a career military man, he moved and always took the tractor with him from Texas to Florida. He retired around Pensacola and has now decided to sell the tractor.
He did some research and found the patent for the tractor from 1933. Charles S. Brown had 42 patents credited to him that included at least 3 iterations of this tractor and a larger 4 cylinder tractor that strongly resembled a Fordson. Here is a link to Mr. Brown's patents: Charles Brown Patents
This tractor is on factory Goodrich hard rubber tires that are very nice condition for their age, still have a tread pattern showing. The engine certainly looks like a two cylinder LeRoi but we found no badging on it to verify that. The engine part of the patent does show in the drawing so it could be a Brown engine. The mag is a Bosch and the carburetor is a Zenith. There is a definite resemblance to an International Harvester sickle bar mower. Some of the other known Rome/Brown mowers have IHC parts. On this particular model, all we could find were the sickle guards marked with a round IHC.
It has all original paint with the exception of the sickle bar which was painted at some point in time IHC Blue. There is an old crack in the front yoke that we have photographed and has been there for quite some time. The motor is loose and has not ran for at least 50-60 years. We are going to lubricate everything well and see if we can get it started before auction time, so watch this site for updates.
UPDATE - We have started the tractor, driven it and even mowed with it! It's awake after it's long slumber! Wonderful little machine, two cylinder and a sharp sickle bar. Ready for hay season!
There are no bids for the lot at this time
The Pre '30 Auction features Pre-1930 tractors, along with early engines and vehicles! This years Tractor auction includes 10 of the actual movie cars used on the set of 'Killers of the Flower Moon', as well as the decades old untouched internal contents of a Murphy Calendar Company Powerhouse.
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