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Gibson Manufacturing Corporation was a company that made
After the company closed the designs for the Super D and the Super D2 were sold to PowerFlex.
tractor
A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction. Most commo ...
s and railroad speeder
A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or a draisine) is a small railcar formerly used around the world by track inspectors and work cre ...
s. It is estimated they made around 60,000 tractors.
Rail cars
In 1933 Gibson recognized that there was a need for larger railroad speeders than those available on the market at the time. Gibson's larger speeder was an immediate success, and several found their way to logging railroads, where people needed to be moved from logging site to logging site separate of the log trains. Some of these speeders now remain in museums.Tractors
Their first tractor was the model A, Production started inSeattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
, Washington sometime after 1938, but moved to Longmont, Col. in 1946 after the corporation was pressured to unionize, and later models were made here as well. Headquarters and product development stayed in Seattle There are 10 models. A, D, H, I, SD, Super D, Super D2, and experimental models SL and M, few of which are known to exist. A, D, SD, Super D, and Super D2 tractors all used 6 HP Wisconsin
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AEH engines. Seattle tractors were usually painted blue-gray with red sheetmetal. while Colorado ones were either Fordson Gray or Red or a mix of these colors. An advertisement read "Master of 1000 Chores. The Gibson tractor is outstanding in development design. The tractor is ideally adapted for use on the small general farm, truck farm, orchards or as a auxiliary tractor for large farms, ranches, country estates and municipalities, along with park systems."
Several accessories were sold to go on these tractors, including two types of plow with Sandoval coulter disks, a disk harrow, dozers, and for the Model D a sickle mower.
After the company closed the designs for the Super D and the Super D2 were sold to PowerFlex.
Forklifts
The U.S. military signed a contract with Gibson Manufacturing Corporation to make forklifts, but this contract may have led to their closing when they were unable to fulfill it.References
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