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• Anleitung zur Behandlung der Lokomobilen (in German; Berlin: P. Parey, 1888), by L. Paul Lázár
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• Power farming, (La Porte, Ind., M. Rumely company, [c1913]), by Raymond Olney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traction engine [electronic resource] : its use and abuse, including gas and gasoline engines : with special chapters on threshing machines and how to run a threshing rig / (Toronto : Musson, 1904, c1898), by James H. Maggard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gasoline tractors. A practical presentation of tractor problems and their soution, (Chicago, Amrican Technical Society, 1920), by Charles B. Hayward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Digest of United States automobile patents from 1789 to July 1, 1899, including all patents officially classed as traction-engines for the same period. Chronologically arranged ... together with lists of patents in the classes of portable-engines, traction-wheels, electric locomotivs, and electric railway battery systems ... / (Washington, D.C. : H. B. Russell & Company, 1900), by James Titus Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm tractor handbook. (London, Iliffe, 1919?), by George Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Descriptive catalogue of the celebrated "Peerless" steam engines. (Akron, Ohio : The Werner Co., [1899]), by Geiser Manufacturing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power wagon reference book 1919- ; a handbook of practical information for makers, sellers and owners of motor-driven vehicles for commercial and agricultural purposes ... (Chicago, Ill., The Power wagon publishing company, 1919-), ed. by Stanley A. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traction engine, its use and abuse : including gas and gasoline engines : with special chapters on threshing machines and how to run a threshing rig / (Philadelphia : D. McKay, c1904), by James H. Maggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adams' common sense instruction on gas tractor operation; (Minneapolis, The Jensen printing company, 1920), by Harry W. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traction engine : its use and abuse /, by James H. Maggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instructions for traction and stationary engineers : a book of instruction and reference for traction and stationary engineers, with questions and answers, useful tables, and rules / (St. Anthony Park, Minn., c1906), by William Boss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select committee on traction engines on roads; together with the proceedings of the Committee, minutes of evidence, appendix, and index. Ordered, by the House of commons, to be printed, 1 July 1896. (London : Printed for H.M. Stationery off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, [1896]), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select committee on traction engines on roads and Henry Hobhouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractor tests conducted at Fremont, Neb. July 26 to Aug. 2, 1917, by the Agr. engineering dept. of the University of Nebraska / ([Racine, Wis., 1917]), by Wis.) J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co. (Racine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm engines and how to run them; the young engineer's guide ... with special attention to traction and gasoline farm engines, and a chapter on the science of successful threshing, (Chicago : F.J. Drake & Co., 1910), by James H. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• La mano d'opera e la macchine agrarie. (Piacenza, 1916), by Emilio Morandi, Paolo Ceresa-Costa, Società degli agricoltori italiani, and Federazione italiana dei consorzi agrari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ordnance maintenance: ordnance engine model RD-1820 (caterpillar) 9 December 1943. ([Washington, D.C.] : War Dept., 1943), by United States Army Ordnance Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tests of traction engines / (1904), by Raebern Henry Post and Ward Ellis Wright (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Caterpillar times. (Stockton, Calif. : Holt Manufacturing Co.), by Holt Manufacturing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• English and American steam carriages and traction engines. ([Newton Abbot, Eng.] : David & Charles, [c1973]), by William Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hart-Parr Company kerosene-gasoline traction engines. (Charles City, Ia. : Hart-Parr Co., [191-?]), by Hart-Parr Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of the 5-ton artillery tractor, Model 1917 : with instructions for its care, operation and maintenance ; (one hundred thirty-three plates) ; July 15, 1918. ([Washington] : [publisher not identified], [1918]), by United States Army Ordnance Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractor world. (Pawtucket, R. I. [Automobile journal pub. co.], 1918-23) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cost of operating power equipment on Oregon farms / (Corvallis, Ore. : Oregon State System of Higher Education, Agricultural Experiment Station, Oregon State College, 1942), by D. Curtis Mumford, George B. Davis, and Virgil D. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Suggested unit course in farm tractor maintenance ... ([Albany] The University of the state of New York, the state education dept., Agricultural bureau and the Bureau of industrial and technical education, 1942), by New York (State) Bureau of Agricultural education, Robert H. Smith, Kendrick Sherman Hart, Archie Augustus Stone, and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lincoln on agriculture; address, Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, State fair, Milwaukee, September 30, 1859 ... (Madison, Lincoln Fellowship of Wisconsin, 1943), by Abraham Lincoln (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm engines and how to run them : the young engineer's guide ... with ... a chapter on water supply systems in the farm home, the science of successful threshing / (Chicago : F. J. Drake & Co., [c1918]), by James H. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm power cyclopedia. A book of practical information for users of gasoline and other engines, stationary, portable, and traction, including successful methods of applying them to various farm, shop and household purposes, (Chicago, Shrewesbury Publishing Co., [c1915]), by Berton Elliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the use of caterpillars as motive power for big-wheels. ([n.p., 1924]), by Vance S. Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The traction engine catechism ; a hand book of practical information for the farm engineer and thresherman, compiled from regular issues of the Threshermen's review, with additions of reference tables ... (St. Joseph, Mich., The Threshermen's review co., 1906), by Threshermen's Review (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tractor and its influence upon the agricultural implement industry, (Philadelphia, The Curtis Publishing Company, 1916), by Barton Wood Currie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traction farming and traction engineering, gasoline, alcohol, kerosene; a practical hand-book for the owners and operators of gas and oil engines on the farm, comprising a full description of the leading makes of farm tractors, with directions for their care and operation; also engines for water supply and electric lighting on the farm. A special section devoted to threshing machines and the science of threshing. (Chicago, F. J. Drake, 1917), by James Henry Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical hand book of gas, oil and steam engines, stationary, marine, traction, gas burners, oil burners, etc., farm, traction, automobile, locomotive ; a simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines. Dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel. (Chicago, Charles C. Thompson Co., 1913), by John B. Rathbun (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traction engine, its use and abuse, including gas and gasoline engines : with special chapters on threshing machines and how to run a threshing rig / (Philadelphia : D. McKay, 1908), by James H. Maggard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tractor principles; the action, mechanism, handling, care, maintenance and repair of the gas engine tractor, (New York, London, D. Appleton and company, 1920), by Roger B. Whitman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Farm and garden tractors, how to buy, run, repair and take care of them, (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, [c1920]), by A. Frederick Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Rumely engines and separators. (La Porte, Ind. : La Porte Printing Co., 1891), by Rumely Products Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Care and operation of the "caterpillar" 45 tractor. (Stockton, Cal., Peoria, Ill., The Holt manufacturing company, incorporated, c1917), by incorporated Holt manufacturing company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power wagon reference book. (Chicago, Ill. : Power Wagon Pub. Co., 1919-) (page images at HathiTrust)
• English and American steam carriages and traction engines, (London, New York Bombay, Longmans, Green, and co., 1904), by William Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Steam traction engineering : a book for operating engineers / (New York ; London : D. Appleton, 1916), by Samuel Raymond Eighinger and Mancius S. Hutton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traction farming and traction engineering, gasoline--alcohol--kerosene; a practical hand-book for the owners and operators of gas and oil engines on the farm ... (Chicago, F. J. Drake & co., [c1913]), by James Henry Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the rise and progress of steam locomotion on common roads ... : With an abstract of the discussion upon the papers / (London : Printed by W. Clowes and sons, 1873), by John Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor vehicles and tractors; (Nyack, N.Y., P. M. Heldt, [c1929]), by Peter Martin Heldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cyclopedia of automobiles, gas and oil engines and farm tractors : a complete manual of practical information for owners and drivers of automobiles, operators of gas and oil engines and farm tractors, with chapters on electric light and water supply systems for farm homes. (Chicago : F. J. Drake & co., Pub. expressly for Sears, Roebuck & co., 1919), by L. Elliott Brookes and James H. Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of steam power on common roads... (London, Atchley & co., [1861]), by Charles Frederic T. Young, J. K. Fisher, and Alexander Lyman Holley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Farm engines and how to run them; (Chicago, F. J. Drake & co., [1903]), by James Henry Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Album of historical steam traction engines. (Los Angeles, c1949-), by Floyd Clymer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new system of heavy goods transport on common roads, (London, New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902), by Bramah Joseph Diplock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical traction in war for road transport, with notes on automobiles generally. (London, S. Low, Marston and company; Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company, 1900), by Otfried Layriz, trans. by Robert Bright Marston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A paper relating to traction engines and steam road rollers. ([Philadelphia, 1873]), by Robert Henry Thurston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tractor, selling it as an agricultural implement and fitting it to the midwest crop areas. (Chicago, New York [etc.] A. Capper, [c1920]), by Topeka Capper Farm Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patents for inventions. Abridgements of specifications relating to agriculture. Division III. Agricultural and traction engines. A. D. 1618-1866. (London, 1884), by Great Britain. Patent Office and Henry Reader Lock (page images at HathiTrust)
• History and development of steam locomotion on common roads / (London, New York [etc.] : E. & F. N. Spon, 1891), by William Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractor engines, (Cincinnati, American automobile digest, 1920), by E. F. Hallock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power and the plow, (Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911), by L. W. Ellis and Edward Aloysius Rumely (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tractor Principles: The Action, Mechanism, Handling, Care, Maintenance and Repair of the Gas Engine Tractor, by Roger B. Whitman (Gutenberg ebook)
• Practical Hand Book of Gas, Oil and Steam Engines: Stationary, Marine, Traction; Gas Burners, Oil Burners, Etc.; Farm, Traction, Automobile, Locomotive; A simple, practical and comprehensive book on the construction, operation and repair of all kinds of engines. Dealing with the various parts in detail and the various types of engines and also the use of different kinds of fuel., by John B. Rathbun (Gutenberg ebook)
• Farm Engines and How to Run Them: The Young Engineer's Guide, by James H. Stephenson (Gutenberg ebook)

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