Advance-Rumely
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The Advance-Rumely Company of La Porte, Indiana was an American pioneering producer of many types of agricultural machinery, most notably threshing machines and large tractors. Started in 1853 manufacturing threshers and later moved on to steam engines. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. purchased Advance-Rumley in 1931. The company's main works would become what was later known as the "La Porte plant".
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- La Porte
- Image
- Rumely OilPull model H.jpg
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- Commons category
- Advance-Rumely tractors
- inception
- 1853-00-00
- product or material produced
- portable engine
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1931-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Advance Thresher and M. Rumely
- Acquisitions and mergers
- Consolidation and takeover
- Products
- Traction engines and tractors
- Combine harvesters
- Grain processing equipment
- References
- Further reading
- External links
The Advance-Rumely Company of La Porte, Indiana was an American pioneering producer of many types of agricultural machinery, most notably threshing machines and large tractors. Started in 1853 manufacturing threshers and later moved on to steam engines. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. purchased Advance-Rumley in 1931. The company's main works would become what was later known as the "La Porte plant".
Thanks to various mergers and acquisitions, the company's origins stretched as far back as 1853. However, the origin of the two components of the corporate nameAdvance Thresher Company and M. Rumely Companywere somewhat newer, though still long-lived in the agricultural equipment industry. The company was organized under the name Advance-Rumely in 1915.
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