Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company

Based in Waterloo, Iowa, the company was created by John Froelich and a group of Iowa businessmen in 1893, and was originally named the Waterloo Gasoline Traction Engine Company.

Miller decided to stop producing tractors and instead focus on building plain gasoline engines.

This tractor proved immensely popular, and over eight thousand were sold before the line was discontinued in 1923.

[2] By this time, several other companies had begun to build and sell tractors, but the Waterloo Boy was easily one of the most popular.

Deere & Company had been anxious to enter the growing tractor market, but its own initial designs had proved unsuccessful.