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A famous Canadian farm engine builder based in Waterloo, Ontario. It built engines in |
A famous Canadian farm engine builder based in Waterloo, Ontario. It built engines in |
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sizes ranging from 16 horspower to 30 horsepower, |
sizes ranging from 16 horspower to 30 horsepower, from 1880 to 1925. |
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Jacob Bricker was born in 1818 in Waterloo, Ontario, and learned the trade of blacksmith. |
Jacob Bricker was born in 1818 in Waterloo, Ontario, and learned the trade of blacksmith. |
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Revision as of 00:16, 18 June 2011
A famous Canadian farm engine builder based in Waterloo, Ontario. It built engines in sizes ranging from 16 horspower to 30 horsepower, from 1880 to 1925.
Jacob Bricker was born in 1818 in Waterloo, Ontario, and learned the trade of blacksmith. He went into the farm machinery business in 1850 and began to sell threshing machines. He also made horse powered gins to power the implements. About 1880 he started building portable steam engines. A buyout by businessman E. Snider combined the machine end with a plow maker, and small engine builder Haggard and established the Waterloo brand using the Lion marque. Of note for the engines were a roaring lion on the smokebox door, a handwheel for a damper, diamond chimney stack and round spoked wheels.
They became distributors for the Belle City and Minneapolis brands. Waterloo Mfg was bought out by John Deere in the 1920s.
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