Reynolds-Alberta Machine Museum-Agriculture & Trucks.

                                                         
                                                                                 

This Museum in the small town of Wetaskiwin (pronounced We tas quin) was the brainchild of a local car dealer called Sam Reynolds, he sold everything from cars to Caterpillar earth movers to seed drills, his company motto was "we take any thing in part exchange" The result being by the late seventies he had hundreds of cars, steam engines, old trucks, farm machinery of every kind, road graders evan old aircraft. To save this amazing collection he gave it to the Alberta Government and in 1992 they opened this Museum.

Aultman & Taylor tractor from 1920

1946 Ford tractor with home made log splitter.

1918 Rumely Oil Pull, you started this machine  with gasoline and then switched over to Kerosene making it cheaper to run.

This monster tractor was used to break up the sod on the first ploughing of the prairie from 1910, by 1920 these tractors were no longer needed. Built by The Gas Traction Co. in Winnipeg.

This I think is the star of the show, what a beauty.   

   Special plough used to break up brush ground

 McCormick-Deering seed drill from 1928, used on a farm near Wetaskiwin first pulled by horses until 1940 and then fitted with a tractor hitch and used into the 1970s - made to last.

1946 International Harvester Farmall, first introduced in 1939 ran until the early fifties, probably the most famous North American tractor of all time.

 When we were at Fort Steele a few weeks back we came across a piece of machinery we did not recognise-problem solved - this is a John Deere Baling Press, the press part makes it different from normal balers.

John Deere engine and a grain grinder.

Moving on to trucks, these are a the type of truck used by the local trades people and farmers at the beginning of the 20th. century.

This is a home made truck on a Chevrolet 490 Touring Car Chassis.

Tomorrow we will move on to cars, and what a collection Sam Reynolds had!