Samson Siftings: "devoted to the improvement of farm power conditions"

Object detail

Accession number

PUB-2019-21

Description

Monthly magazine produced by Samson Sieve-Grip Tractor Co. and mailed on request. Includes photographs and updates on Samson Sieve-Grip tractors, usages of tractors around the world, and general interest articles. Includes fold-out poster of "300 Samson engines in use in 1909". Vol.3, no.4 (Apr 1917) Contents: Never saw its equal! / samson sieve-grip pleases ladies / samson frees horses / tractors help meet food problem / an acre an hour at papatoetoe [article on how R.B. Spinks & Co., and George Nicol of Auckland are using samson sieve-grips] / four samson sieve-grips n neighboring farms / sixteenth talk: repainting your samson sieve-grip / bankers own samson sieve-grips / thirty samsons for export / four months and not a cent for repairs / motor is very good / samson owners well satisfied / wheelmen clean up at reedley / queer girls / everyone well pleased / samson sells self

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

volumes : illustrations, photographs (black and white) ; 22.5 cm + 1 leaf : illustrations ; 72 x 21.5 cm folded to 9 x 21.5 cm

Other title

Samson sieve-grip siftings

Credit line

1917. Samson Siftings: "devoted to the improvement of farm power conditions", PUB-2019-21. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Classification

Serial Periodical Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Other Documents

Production place

Stockton California United States of America North America Americas

Subject: all levels

Farm tractors New Zealand Periodicals Samson Sieve Grip <C> Anecdotes United States Sievegrip Tractors Periodicals

Collection type

Published Titles Walsh Memorial Library

Subject auto tags

Rectangle Font Book Art Illustration Carmine Pattern Paper product Electric blue Paper

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Tractor [Samson Sieve-Grip]; General Motors Company. Samson Sieve-Grip Tractor Company; Samson Iron Works; 1903; 1917; 1919

Name/Title: Tractor [Samson Sieve-Grip] Maker: General Motors Company. Samson Sieve-Grip Tractor Company, Samson Iron Works Production date: 1903, 1917, 1919 Accession number: 1964.6 See full details

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