O.B. Kinnard and Albert Haines operated a machine shop in the early 1880s, and in 1889 they formed the Kinnard Press Company to produce hay presses among other products. The next decade saw the addition of gasoline engines to the product line, and these were used as the basis for an experimental tractor as early as 1894. The companies tractors were exported around the world, and a Flour City tractor was the first tractor to be imported to New Zealand. From 1907, the tractors were powered by a dedicated four-cylinder engine rather than the stationary engines used in the early models.
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