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[DanO]

I just came across this article in Farm Collector Magazine and thought you Shaw Owners may enjoy reading about the entire History of Shaw. Amazing Story........
He started Inventing the Tractor when he was 9 Years old!!!

Celebrating Shaw Manufacturing

[mjodrey]

Thanks for the link ,very interesting.

[MH81]

Built his first gas engine in 1902...
Check valves...Asbestos rings,
Tinkered until it started and ran with ease

I love stories like that

Very neat article. Thanks for sharing.

[Tinkerer]

Thanks for the interesting article post. It is need to find history of old tractors.

[ducky]

Thanks Dan.
I always enjoy that kind of history.

[skid]

According to everything that I have read about Stanley Shaw, he was a mechanical genius.
Here are a few more links on Shaw history:

Shaw manufacturing time line

National Shaw DU-ALL Tractor Club

Shaw also built several automobiles:

Shawmobile

1917 Shaw Speedster
(this is a photo of one of the three known to still exist)

[DB1]

Thanks for the History lesson.

Here is an ad for the Shaw motor attachment from 1923 for a bike.

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