Avery Company was an American farm tractor builder, famed for its undermounted engine, in that the tractor more resembled a railroad engine in a farmer's field, than a conventional farm steam engine.
Robert Hanneman Avery went into the farm implement business after the Civil War. His company put out a large line of products, including steam engines beginning in 1891. The company started with a return flue style, and later went into the undermount style replete with pugnacious bulldog on the smokebox door. They experienced immediate success with farmers in central Illinois and their market grew nation-wide and overseas until their failure to innovate brought them down in the 1920s. They later manufactured trucks and then automobiles until succumbing to an agricultural crisis and later the Depression.
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