An Overview of the Beeman Company History.

• The Beeman Garden Tractor, The First Successful Walking Tractor (I think)

The history of the Beeman tractors follows this basic timeline:

1915 Walking tractor patents begin to be granted to Ed Beeman

1916 – 1917 Continuous frustration in trying to build a machine suitable for production

1919 Beeman contracts with Gilson to make 5100 tractors

1921 - 1922 Agricultural Depression in the US causes sales to plummet. Beeman introduces "Beeman Jr." based on a Briggs powered Gilson-built tractor.

1924 Beeman company is on the financial ropes, sold at public auction.

1924 – 1942 The New Beeman Tractor Company sells machines and parts. Virtually all innovation stops.

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