Moline Plow Company

[3] Reorganized under the new name, it built a line of horse-drawn plows and other implements to serve the large American agricultural market.

It was a two-wheel tractor whose trailing implement provided the rear wheels to form a four-wheel articulated unit.

An overview of Moline Universal design and operation, written by the company as a contributing corporate author to a 1920 how-to guide for farmers, is available in Harry W. Adams' 1920 book Adams' Common Sense Instruction On Gas Tractor Operation.

[2] Moline Plow considered the Allis-Chalmers Model 6-12, a very similar tractor, to be a patent-infringing copy.

Several famous people served as executives or engineers at Moline Plow, including Frank Gates Allen, William P. Bettendorf, George Peek, and Hugh S. Johnson.

Moline Universal Tractor advertisement, 1918. [ 1 ]
Moline Universal implement attachment points, 1920. [ 2 ]
A restored Moline Universal.
An overview of the Stephens Salient Six automobile, built by the Stephens division of the Moline Plow Company, in the journal Horseless Age , 1918.