List of traction engine manufacturers

This is a list of the more notable companies that manufactured traction engines of any kind, including steam tractors, portable engines, and steam rollers.

Germany

• Borsig of Berlin, Germany
• Esterer, Germany (particularly known for their Ploughing engines)
• Freibahn of Spandau, Germany
• Hanomag, Hannover, Germany now part of Komatsu
• Henschel & Son, of Kassel, Germany
• Kemna Bau, Breslau, (then) Germany
• Heinrich Lanz AG, of Mannheim, Germany
• Otto Meyer KG, Wellentrup, Germany
• Rudolf Ernst Wolf, Magdeburg, Germany
• Ruthemeyer, Stadthalle Soest, Germany
• Scharer & Gross, Germany
• Zettelmeyer, Germany

Great Britain

There were a large number of manufacturers in Great Britain. Most started life as agricultural engineers, and many exported engines all over the world. Some of the manufacturers are listed below:

• Alfred Dodman & Co.[1]
• William Allchin, Northampton – (MERL database entry)
• John Allen & Company, Oxford - best Known for the Allen Scythe.[2]
• Aveling & Porter, Rochester, Kent
• Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works Built steam wagons from 1904 to 1908[3]
• Brown & May, Devizes, Wiltshire[4]

North America

Key: '~' indicates a manufacturer for whom no known products survive.

• Advance Thresher Co. – later merged with the M. Rumely Co. to create Advance-Rumely Thresher Co.
• Advance-Rumely Thresher Co., La Porte, Indiana
• ~Althaus Ewing & Co.
• ~American Engine Co.
• American-Abell Engine and Thresher Company, Toronto, Ontario[9]
• Amongst other models, built three-wheelers with a single wheel mounted on a fork perch bracket beneath the smokebox.[10]
• Ames Iron Works
• ~Atlas Engine Works
• Aultman Co.

Rest of the world

• Aillot, France
• Munktells Mekaniska Verkstad, Sweden (not Bolinders), now part of Volvo group
• Vølund (virksomhed), Denmark now part of Babcock & Wilcox

See also

• List of tractor manufacturers
• List of former tractor manufacturers
• List of steam energy topics
• List of steam car makers