MONDAY DECEMBER 2 1946 TRIBUNE GIRD FOR COAL 'FINISH' FIGHT' 70 100 This morning. First cold day. ELISE JR's 30TH Birthday George MacKay telephoned asking if I could help him get a 100-150 KW generating set. I got the War Assets in St Louis to help him. [Drawing: Tricycle tractor] Thought of the idea today of taking a Ford tractor and taking 18" out of the transmision and rear axle housing lenthwise so that a new type of tricycle tractor can be tried out. This, as the sketch shows, would place the seat ahead where riding qualities, safety and ease of getting off and on are better. This will make a lower center of gravity tractor, with more clearence behind front tractor wheels. Whith hydraulic controls a rear seat is not essential. Talked this over with Charley Stone, who thinks it a good idea to build one. So we plan to rebuild a Ford tractor.

Creator

• Brown, Theophilus

Language

• English

Identifier

• 1946_2_171
• MS02.01.26.387

Keyword

• diary

Year

• 1946

Date created

• 1946-12-02

Related url

•  https://digital.wpi.edu/show/qv33s1060

Resource type

• Image

Source

• MS02.01.26.387.429

Last modified

• 2023-09-05