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Hello Everyone,
Sorry but I’ve been busy and my computer was down for a while until I got the old files transferred to a different machine. I also downloaded an ftp program so I can upload my Website changes myself instead of getting my son to do it. I also added a scanner to my hardware. I have made numerous additions and improvements in the Website using thumbnails picture to decrease load time and provide larger viewable pictures. I haven't perfected my picture editing techniques yet. I also divided some pages into smaller pages so you don't have to scroll as much. I was taking a course on C++ and the Professor assigned a lot of homework. I’m taking Visual Basic this term, which will be more useful, I hope. First let me thanks Barry Gorman in Australia who informed me Moss Vale where Clifford Howard did an apprenticeship is not a business or school but "a town on the southern highlands of New South Wales, Southwest of Sydney." Secondly, Frazer Farm Equipment is back in business. Some long illness and lack of attention to the business caused the misunderstanding. So go get those spares parts you need and get your Graham-Paige/Frazer ready for the spring rototilling or shows. I have more people contact me with machines for sale then people looking for a machine. I will pass along the name and email address of those who have machines for sale. What state you live in is helpful. Someone in Florida isn't going to Washington State to buy a machine (unless it's rare). If you have a machine for sale or looking for one, try your local newspapers, or consignment auctions. Also try www.atis.net , www.ytmag.com , www.tractorlinks.com , and www.ebay.com . |
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Last October I went to Troy New York to do some research, I was there on a weekend and Troy-Bilt was closed. The building where their museum was, is now offices for Garden Way. I could not see if the museum was still in there. I went to the Lanisburgh and Downtown Branches of the City of Troy Public Library, Thanks again to the Ladies of the libraries. In the Downtown branch archive room I found a 1938 newspaper article on Rototiller, Inc. which is a great insight on the company. Copy of text included. I also visited the Folson Library at Renesselaer Polytechnic Institute. Actually I stayed in a dorm at RPI, a friend of my son attends college there. Where I got to make a copy of the December 1923 article in Scientific American magazine titled "Chewing Up the Soil for Better Crops". I retyped the article and included it also. Scientific American doesn't use brand names in its articles, but it seems to be an early Siemens Gartenfrase. I also found a May, 1942 senior thesis by John Robert Fiero for his B. S. degree in Mechanical Engineering. It was an Analysis of the Plant Layout and Operation. There was also a large blueprint of the main manufacturing building. Rototiller Inc. still produced Rototiller® during the war, what war effort activity Rototiller Inc. was involved in I will try to find out. I have a few people I mail this newsletter to, not every one is "online". I apologize to them for not provided more information to them. This newsletter is too keep the "online" groups up on changes to material on the Website, some are just correction to spelling or to clarify an earlier version, such as Moss Vale is a town not a "what". The Website is too large to printout but if you are interested in a particular model, I will print out that section for the people not "online". |