Abram Zimmerman was a mechanical genius[3] who brought his talents to bear in the new blacksmith business as he began repairing and making farm machinery for the local farmers.

[1] Abram Zimmerman began retailing the German Otto four-cycle engine as part of his new business.

Zimmerman thought that he could build and manufacture his own stationary engine which would be lighter in weight and would be easier to repair and operate.

One of the innovations incorporated into Zimmerman's new engine was the fact that the water jacket was shaped like a bowl and was larger at the top than at the bottom.

[6] With this new capital, the company acquired a brick factory on Franklin Street in the city of New Holland and hired on 40 employees to mass-produce the new stationary engine.

The most popular seller among the line of stationary engines offered by New Holland was the 5 hp model.

As early as November 1899, even before the company had been incorporated, Abe Zimmerman's blacksmith shop had been advertising a feed grinder of his own design.

[13] Later, after incorporation, the New Holland Machine Company sold these feed grinders with the option of being mounted on a wooden or steel truck and also with the option of having one of the four larger New Holland engines (4 hp through the 16 hp models) mounted on the truck together with the feed grinder.

[14] In this way the feed grinder and engine would form a single unit which could easily be moved around the farm.