Moline Wagon
This Moline wagon was built by the Moline Wagon Works and the John Deere companies in 1906. The reach plate (the ID plate) says “John Deere-Moline”.
The Moline Wagon Company was established in 1854 in Moline, Illinois. The Moline wagon was sold through John Deere dealers before Deere and Company purchased the Moline Wagon Company in 1906. The Deere sales branches in Omaha, Nebraska sold the “Moline” wagon. More than one million “Moline” wagons were in use by 1909. With 500 workers the factory claimed it could build a new wagon every six minutes.
This wagon has a chuck box made of red heart cedar. The wagon comes equipped with wagon sheet, dutch oven boot, 15 x 18 cook fly, cedar poles with pole rack, wrought iron stakes, barrel with barrel rack, all ropes, axe and shovel.
