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1927 · ref. 59272 — Racine WI: J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co. 1927. 8vo. 9 x 11.75 in. 43 5 pp. With over 100 photo and text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers front cover art of Case tractor plowing minor dustsoiling small tear to spine minor creasing very minor bumping still VG- copy. First edition of this rare catalogue for the Case Threshing Machine Company issued featuring all the parts and supplies to maintain their traction engines portable engines gas & oil tractors threshing machines and road building equipment. Jerome Increase Case 1819- 1891 began building threshing machines in 1847 in Racine WI and by 1869 had engineered and built Case Steam Engine Number One. Subsequently Case began producing a whole line of self-propelled traction engines portable engines twine binder machines separators stackers and more. Their road building machinery line-up included not only Case steamrollers but also rock crushers elevators screens and bins. No copies in Worldcat; See: Case Construction Equipment History 2013; Leffingwell Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor Chapter 2; Bill Ganzel Wessels Living History Farm York Nebraska 2014. J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co., paperback