case TRACTORS

  Jerome Increase Case got his start in the threshing business.  His father sold hand threshing machines and did contract threshing for local farmers.  Jerome was often relegated the job of running the thresher so he was intimately familiar with the operation of the machines.  After he finished school he left for the west with several hand theshers he had purchased on credit.  He was very successful at this profession and soon began building his own threshing machines.  

   As threshers grew in size so did their power requirements.  Hand powered units were replaced by horse power units until steam power took over.  Jerome was fascinated by  steam engines and was soon designing and building his own.  The tractor business became the mainstay of the Case company after the invention and implementation of the combine.  By the late 1930's case dropped it's thresher line and it's main focus had become tractors.  The first Case gasoline tractors were introduced in 1904.  Because of a general ignorance of the gasoline engine these tractors gained a poor reputation at first but Case instituted a owner training program in 1911 which increased reliability immensely.    

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