Power Show June 18-20, 2010
Featured local business will be Jim Straeter's New Holland. Featured will be Ford/Fordson tractors, and New Holland equipment. Also hit n' miss engines will be featured.
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Show has Antique Tractor Olympics, John Henry tug-of-war, antique tractor pulls, balancing and other contests.
Foods, crafts, programs.
Exhibitors wanted: tractors, hit-n-miss engines, lawn tractors, equipment, antique trucks, etc.
Tractors need to be 20 yrs old & trucks 30 yrs old.
Vendors wanted: swap, craft, food, etc.
Write for exhibitor application or vendor information please
Contact: Melinda Clinger 574-223-4436 or E-mail: melinda@rtcol.com
Address: FCHPA, C/0 FCHS, 37E 375 N, Rochester IN 46975
Sponsored by Fulton Co. Hist. Power Assn. and Fulton Co. Hist. Soc. Inc.
Held on FCHS grounds 4 miles north of Rochester, Ind., on U.S. 31 & Co. Rd. 375 N.
On site camping for exhibitors only, showers, museum, Round Barn & Living History Village, Tippecanoe River, etc.
Hosting the Vintage Garden Tractor Club of America. For information on Vintage Garden Tractor Club of America, contact Dennis Merlau 616-623-8545 or E-mail merlau@aol.com.
Dues are $15 a year. Checks are to be made payable to Fulton Co. Hist. Power Assn., c/o FCHS, 37 E 375 N, Rochester, IN 46975. Membership can be from other counties, not just Fulton County. Persons interested in joining should contact Melinda Clinger, Museum Director at 574-223-4436 or stop by the museum Mon. – Sat. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lewis Designs Power Association Logo
LogoChad Lewis, Tiosa, designed the FCHPA logo. Lewis makes magnetic signs for tractors as well as advertising signs for vehicles and will have a display at the Fulton County Historical Power Show.
The logo has the shape of Fulton County with a flag flying in one corner, a windmill in the background, and a Rumely Oil Pull tractor. This tractor has a Fulton County connection as Edward Rumely married Fanny Scott, great-granddaughter of William Polke, surveyor of the Michigan Road and Fulton County's first white settler in 1830. She owned the Fanny Scott farm that was located west of Rochester on Indiana 14 until her death in 1979.
Meinrad & Jacob Rumely came to Laporte, Ind. in 1848 and founded the original M & J Rumely Company in 1853. This company was later known as M. Rumely Company. In 1931 the company merged with Allis Chalmers and became known as Allis-Chalmers-Rumely.
Edward Rumely was the son of Joseph Rumely, and grandson of Meinrad Rumely. He studied at Oxford and Heidelburg, Germany, where he became acquainted with Rudolf Diesel. From here he developed a keen interest in the internal combustion engine. In 1907 he returned to Laporte and took a position in the company. Edward then went to work to produce a reliable farm tractor. A new shop building was built and with the help of John A. Secor who developed the carburetor for the OilPull tractor they started producing in Feb. 1910.
The Rumely OilPull was one of the first engines able to economically burn kerosene, which was much cheaper and more plentiful than gasoline.
Want to participate? Send for an application!
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