New Holland Machine Company
The most popular seller among the line of stationary engines offered by New Holland was the 5 hp. Thus, because of this bowl-shaped water jacket, Zimmerman s new engine was freeze proof. With prototypes of his new engine completed, Zimmerman, now wished to manufacture and sell his new engine.Accordingly, Zimmerman raised $50,000 by selling 500 shares in the new company to his neighbors. By 1911, sales of the 5 hp.
models) mounted on the truck together with the feed grinder. With this new capital, the company acquired a brick factory on Franklin Street in the city of New Holland and hired on 40 employees to mass produce the new stationary engine. Eventually, five different horsepower (hp.) models of the New Holland stationary engine were mass produced by the New Holland Company.
The Otto was a single-cylinder dual fly-wheel stationary engine which was manufactured in Philadelphia. model.
For the subsequent history see New Holland Ag. . In this way the feed grinder and engine would form a single unit which could easily be moved around the farm. Following incorporation, other machines had been added to the line of New Holland machinery.
In 1912, the company began manufacturing its own rock crusher and, by 1914, the New Holland Machine Company had also added a wood saw to its line of farm machinery. The New Holland Machine Company was purchased by the Sperry Corporation in 1947, to form Sperry-New Holland. If water were left in the bowl-shaped water jacket of this new engine during a cold winter s night, the ice could expand harmlessly upwards and outwards without cracking the castings of the cylinder or engine.
Success in selling the stationary engines, led the New Holland Machine Company to expand into the manufacture of other farm machine products. As early as November 1899, even before the company had been incorporated, Abe Zimmerman s blacksmith shop had been advertising a feed grinder of his own design. To do this he needed to incorporate and take on some new investors.
In its first annual report dated March 29, 1904, the company was able to report profits of $1,859.40 following its very first year of incorporation. model New Holland stationary engine were up more than 253% over sales of the same engine in 1904. Success attended the company from the very beginning.
Thus in 1903, the New Holland Machine Company was born. Zimmerman was selected chief executive of the new company. The New Holland Machine Company was founded in 1895, when a young man by the name of Abram Zimmerman purchased a horse barn in New Holland, Pennsylvania and established a blacksmith shop.
who brought his talents to bear in the new blacksmith business as he began repairing and making farm machinery for the local farmers. Abram Zimmerman began retailing the German Otto four-cycle engine as part of his new business. However, Zimmerman s innovative nature soon had developed a better idea . Zimmerman thought that he could build and manufactured his own stationary engine which would be lighter in weight and would be easier to repair and operate. Like most stationary engines of the time, Zimmerman s new engine was water cooled - a water jacket around the cylinder was filled with water to keep the engine cool while the engine was in use.
If not drained, the water would freeze in the water jacket, the ice would expand when freezing and this expansion would crack the cast iron engine. One of the innovations incorporated into Zimmerman s new engine was the fact that the water jacket was shaped like a bowl and was larger at the top than at the bottom. engine and ranged upwards to a 16 hp.
Generally, the water evaporated as the engine was operated and more water had to be added to the water jacket of the typical engine throughout the day. In the wintertime, the water jacket had to be drained of water when the farmer was through working with the engine. These five models started with the little 1½ hp.
model. This feed and cob mill had a capacity of 10 to 30 bushels of feed per hour and was being offered to the farming public for $15.00. Later, after incorporation, the New Holland Machine Company sold these feed grinders with the option of being mounted on a wooden or steel truck and also with the option of having one of the four larger New Holland engines (4 hp through the 16 hp.
