The Sawyer and Massey Co. and Sawyer-Massey brand only had a short life and was a Canadian manufacturer of tractors in the early 1900's, based in Ontario. The firm built Steam portables and traction engines initial. The firm was formed when Massey family founders of Massey-Harris took a large stake in the L.D.Sawyer company in 1892, But they pulled out after a few years. Massey Harris marketed some Sawyer threshing machines and steam tractors before members of the Massey family took a personnel stake in the company.

The company developed a range of gas engined tractors. The company built Tractors only from 1910-1922. The early models being Prairie tractors, followed in 1917 by light tractors.^[1]

List of modelsEdit

Steam engines

• 13, 17, 20 and 25 hp Agricultural traction engines
• 20 hp portable engines

Kerosene tractors

• Sawyer Massey 11-22 1917-22
• Sawyer Massey 12-25
• Sawyer Massey 18-36
• Sawyer Massey 20-40
• Sawyer Massey 27-50( re rated as 22-45 )
• Sawyer Massey 25-50 - 4 cylinder 2F-2R

PreservationEdit

These tractors were not originally imported into the UK so any examples are recent imports by collectors who collect them for their uniqueness.

• Sawyer Massey 11-22 sn ? - At National Tractor Show - Peterborough (photo above)
• Sawyer Massey 11-22 sn 5105 - seen at Little Casterton Working Weekend 2010 (plate above)

See alsoEdit

• List of Tractor Manufacturers
• Massey-Harris
• Shows and Meets

References / sourcesEdit

• Information sheet on the tractor shown above.

External linksEdit

• Steel wheels Web site - pre 1930 tractors