Reeves & Co.
Reeves & Co. was an American farm tractor builder for 30 years, based in Columbus, Indiana. It built some of the largest steam traction engines used in North America.
Hoosier Boy Cultivator Company
Marshal Reeves was the inventor of a two horse tongueless corn plow in 1869. In 1875 together with his father and uncle formed the Hoosier Boy Cultivator Company. In 1879, the company name was changed to Reeves & Company. Reeves went on to design and manufacture threshers, straw stackers, separators, corn shellers and clover hullers, holding more than 50 patents. At the same time as Marshal Reeves' brother Milton began making automobiles, in 1895, Reeves & Co. went into the steam engine business. They made engines in sizes from 13 HP to 40 HP.Steam engines
The company built steam plowing engines for the American and Canadian West and provided an engine and boiler approved by Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. These new engines fulfilled these provinces' revised boiler laws enacted in 1910. There, steam breaking plows were needed to till the virgin soil.The massive 40-120 HP engines were brought out in 1908 and their two stories height allowed the driver to see over the cross-compound engine. They built engines in nominal horsepower sizes: 13 hp, 16 hp, 20 hp, 25 hp, 32 hp and 40 hp. The "140" referenced above was the "brake horsepower."