Jim Allen

A chronology of diesel-powered light trucks in America Diesel-powered land vehicles go back a long way in U.S. history, but diesel light trucks are relatively […]

1956 Massey-Harris 555 The ’55 Diesel debuted in 1949 as the big diesel tractor in the Massey-Harris lineup. Despite some teething problems, it established a […]

Tiny Diesel RC Plane Engine Tiny houses. Tiny cars. Tiny diesels. Now you’ve seen it all. We’ll bet you didn’t know that diesel engines have […]

1962 John Deere 3010 When John Deere introduced four new tractors at its big New Generation of Power extravaganza in Dallas, August 30, 1960, it […]

1968 County 1124 The British County tractor isn’t one you see often here in the States, but you may wonder why not after seeing one. […]

The Cummins Historical Restoration Center Those who appreciate diesel history are always happy to see the cornerstones of diesel manufacturing maintaining corporate investments in it. […]

The White V4-106 Every once in a while you run across something really odd that requires a lot of research. In this case it was […]

International W-450 Out with the old and in with the new. You’ve heard that expression a million times. In the late 1950s, International Harvester was […]

The Packard DR-980 Radial Aircraft Diesel Dedicated to the late Robert J. Neal, who wrote the books on Packard. Packard is best known for high-performance […]

1946 Oliver Cletrac BD Crawler Cletrac began in 1916 as the Cleveland Motor Plow Company with a three-wheeled tractor design. Before the patent was even […]

The turbo diesel is so commonplace today that naturally aspirated diesels stand out. Go back nearly 60 years and the opposite was true. In 1961, […]

A chronology of diesel-powered light trucks in America Diesel-powered land vehicles go back a long way in U.S. history, but diesel light trucks are a […]

A short History of Ford’s first IDI and DI diesel pickups It was the 1970s, and people were reeling from the shock of gas prices […]

A Mercedes-Beater That Went Down in Flames It’s not going over the top to say very few engines had more impact on the American light […]

The Massey-Ferguson 97 & Minneapolis-Moline 706 Badge engineering is nothing new. Tractor companies did it as far back as the first decade of the 20th […]

A Tale of Two D2s In the early days of motorized farming, crawler tractors had a big part to play in some parts of the […]

A 1955 International Harvester That Scoots here are a lot of rough and rusty old trucks dying in the weeds. They come in three kinds. […]

Royal Canadian Air Force Cockshutt 40D Tug Buy from the home teams,” has long been the a military priority for many countries around the world […]

Dodge Was Diesel Before Diesel Was Cool The diesel truck bandwagon was not a big one in the 1930s. In fact, during the late 1930s, […]

HERE’S THE BEEF! 1952 MASSEY HARRIS 55 DIESEL Massey-Harris tractors had a solid reputation north and south of the border when they debuted a big […]