Advance-Rumely Thresher Company (1919-1928)
LaPorte, Indiana
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| This is a Rumely farm truck radiator emblem (c1920) smokstak |
The Advance-Rumely Thresher Company was a well known manufacturer of agricultural machinery, particularly threshing machines and large tractors.
Advance-Rumely also produced a one and a half ton farm truck between 1919 and 1928. The Rumely farm truck was initially powered by a four-cylinder Buda engine and used a Fuller transmission and a Sheldon worm-drive rear axle. The engine size was changed in 1923 but the truck was otherwise unchanged.
The Advance-Rumely Thresher Company suffered the effects of the Depression and the company was bought out by Allis-Chalmers in 1931.
Emblems
The Rumely name was cast into the radiator tank top, see example shown above at the top of this post, and this remained unchanged through the production life of the Rumely farm truck.
Original period photos and catalog illustrations do not show any indication of a hood side nameplate, see examples shown below:
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| Rumely farm truck (1919) farmcollector |
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| Rumley farm truck catalog illustration (c1919) smokstak |
However, later Advance-Rumely product catalog farm truck illustrations do show a "Rumely" hood side nameplate, see below:
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| Advance-Rumely product catalog showing farm truck with hood side nameplate (1920's) ms |
The following photo of a near original Rumely farm truck shows the hood side nameplate:
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| Rumely farm truck showing hood side nameplate (early 1920's) david parfitt |
The Rumely hood side nameplate is more clearly seen in the following photo of a restored Rumely farm truck chassis:
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| Restored Rumely farm truck (1920's) smokstak forum |
The following photo shows a similar nameplate attached to the door of a restored Rumely farm truck:
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| Restored Rumely farm truck with door side nameplate (1920's) lktec |
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