953 nut 51,775 #1 Posted January 26 ACME Motor Cultivator From 1948 to the early 1950s Smathers Mfg. Co. of Brevard, North Carolina produced the Acme Motor Cultivator, a small garden tractor with lever steering, two forward speeds (no reverse) powered by a 3.5 horsepower Wisconsen air cooled engine weighing only 375 pounds. Smathers became a stockholder with the Acme Manufacturing Company and operated as a Southern representative for the Wisconsin based company. He later sold his Acme interests and return to operating his own machine and welding shop. It appears that Baird Machine Co purchased ACME from Smathers but I couldn’t find any proof of that. More about the Baird Beaver and Baird Machine Company to come. Inexco Tractor Corp. of New York City handled exports of the machine, which was known as the Inexco Motor Cultivator in export markets. Inexco also sold it as the Tiger Motor Cultivator along with their Tiger Garden Tractor line. More about the Tiger tomorrow and the Smathers connection on Sunday. 3 4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
