Jacobsen Mfg.
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Jacobsen Manufacturing produced lawn mowers and light-duty tractors in the United States from the early 1920s until around 1959.
The company had purchased the Johnston Lawn Mower Company of Ottumwa, Iowa, and used this division to enter the residential mower market, offering reel-type and rotary-type mowers for this market in the 1950s. The Javelin riding mower came out at the end of the 1950s, and the Jacobsen Chief garden tractor was launched in 1961. In the mid-1960s Ford entered the garden tractor market with their versions of Jacobsen Chief models. Jacobsen made tractors for Oliver, FORD, Minneapolis-Moline, and White. Jacobsen also made light tractors aimed at the farm market, with innovative attachments to make the tractors more useful and to make them qualify for tax breaks. Textron purchased Jacobsen around 1975, but continued to produce Jacobsen garden tractors into the 1990s.
Subject ID: 14409
MoreJacobsen Manufacturing produced lawn mowers and light-duty tractors in the United States from the early 1920s until around 1959.
The company had purchased the Johnston Lawn Mower Company of Ottumwa, Iowa, and used this division to enter the residential mower market, offering reel-type and rotary-type mowers for this market in the 1950s. The Javelin riding mower came out at the end of the 1950s, and the Jacobsen Chief garden tractor was launched in 1961. In the mid-1960s Ford entered the garden tractor market with their versions of Jacobsen Chief models. Jacobsen made tractors for Oliver, FORD, Minneapolis-Moline, and White. Jacobsen also made light tractors aimed at the farm market, with innovative attachments to make the tractors more useful and to make them qualify for tax breaks. Textron purchased Jacobsen around 1975, but continued to produce Jacobsen garden tractors into the 1990s.
Subject ID: 14409
Subject ID: 14409
