Ursus C-45 tows Hart-Parr — the company that invented the word TRAKTOR

A Hart-Parr 18-36 from Charles City, Iowa, won't start by itself. So a Polish Ursus C-45 from 1948 comes along and tows it — and then everything turns around. THE WORD “TRACTOR” COME FROM THIS COMPANY Hart-Parr was no ordinary manufacturer. Until the beginning of the 20th century, such machines were called “gasoline traction engines”. In 1906, the company's advertising manager, W.H. Williams, the term for advertisements - and it became: Tractor. The word that everyone around the world uses today comes from the advertising department of this company. The model 18-36 has its performance in its name: 18 hp on the drawbar, 36 on the pulley. Two-cylinder, slow-running, designed for petroleum. The nameplate already says "Oliver Farm Equipment Company" - Hart-Parr was merged into Oliver in 1929, so the machine dates from the time around this merger. THE URSUS C-45 — THE POLISH BULLDOG Year of manufacture 1948, 45 hp, 10,338 cc displacement from a single cylinder, 3,530 kg. The nameplate says tractor No. 813 — the Warsaw factory resumed production in 1947, so this one is among the first hundred. There is a reason why it looks so similar to a Lanz Bulldog: After the war, construction continued in Warsaw based on German designs. Single-cylinder glow head, started without a starter - the steering wheel is removed and inserted into the flywheel as a crank, the glow head is preheated with a blowtorch.