Case Threshing Machinery Catalogue, 1913

J. I. CASE THRESHING MACHINE CO

Publication: Rogers & Company, 1913, Chicago-New York

First edition. 4to. Color, pictorial stiff wrappers, 84 pp., illustrated in black & white, centerfold double-page color plate, price list, contents. This rare catalogue for the Case Threshing Machine Company, issued featuring their traction engines, portable engines, gas & oil tractors, threshing machines, road building equipment, and Case automobiles. Although Case had introduced their first gasoline tractor just 8 years before following the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, by 1912 they were winning tractor contests, such as the 1912 Winnipeg Motor Contest. Jerome Increase Case (1819- 1891) began building threshing machines in 1847 in Racine, Wisconsin, 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. In 1910, Case had purchased the Pierce Motor Co. and quickly began manufacturing the Pierce-Racine automobile, and later the Case Auto employing Pierce Motor Company's 8000 dealers and agents worldwide. Case produced touring models, sedans, coupes, and limousines, as well as race cars, with this catalogue featuring the Case 40 and the Case 30 Roadsters, Touring Cars, and Limousines. They ceased production of autos in the mid-1920s.; 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). Front and rear covers lightly soiled, tiny closed tears and light wrinkles to the fore-edges of six internal pages else a very good copy of a scarce catalogue.

Inventory Number: 49222