Old Firm Makes Farm Equipment
James Cunningham & Son Company, 108 year old firm which has manufactured horse drawn carriages, autos, airplane parts and other items in the past, is now producing two farm equipment items-a sickle bar mower and a walking-type garden tractor.
Maroe than 800 mowers, for use on fence rows, roadsides, railroads and farm lawns, have been shipped to distributors, according to Lois F. Magin, traffic manager. The first shipment of tractors is also ready, he said.
Times-Union; Rochester, NY; July 1, 1946
FIRM EVOLVES PRODUCTION OF FARM DEVICES
Old Plant Here Builds Mower, Tractor
The Cunningham Company is in a new line of business again.
That's hardly startling, because the 108 year old Canal Street firm in the past has made horse drawn carriages, automobiles, parts for tanks, windlasses for observation balloons, machinegun mounts and airplane parts.
Now the firm, more formaly know as James Cunningham And Son Company, is turning out power-driven farm equipment.
Makes 2 Farm Items
After several years of experimental and development work, during which they considered the possible manufacture of "everything from roller skates to refridgerators", the company has placed on the market two farm eqipment items.
One is a sickle bar mower for use on fence rows, roadside, railroads, and farm lawns. The other is a general purpose walking-type garden tractor in two power sizes. More than 800 have already been shipped to distributors, according to Lois F. Magin, traffic manager, and the first batch of tractors was being readied for shipment yesterday.
Made Carriages
The firm wa sfounded in 1838 to manufacture carriages and produced some of the finest in the country. During the Civil War it made carriage wheels for the United States Army.
Then, as the accent shifted from horse to automobiles, the firm went into the production of Cunninghan automobiles, recognized as among the best in the high-cost field.
During Word War I it manufactured windlasses for captive ballons used for observation pirposes on the Western Front, and during the last war made machinegun mounts, airplane parts, and parts of the "tank killer".