TWIN CITY POWER

Twin City tractors were the product of the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company (MS&MC). However, the company which was founded in 1902 first set out in the steel industry, and soon moved on to making stationary steam engines and then gasoline engines.

Entering the market

Around 1909, another company the McVicar Engineering Co. designed a large tractor for the Joy-Wilson Sales Co. of Denver, Colorado. These were built under licence by MS&MC under the name Joy-McVicar. Having dipped its toes in the tractor market MS&MC went on to produce tractors for other companies, notably Case and Bull. Encouraged by this success, the company developed its own tractor range from 1910 onwards. The Twin City brand name came about as the company had two plants - one in Minneapolis and the other in St. Pauls.

This was the time of the prairie giants, and these Twin