"Museum In A Barn" Features Old Molines

"Museum In A Barn" Features Old Molines TRACTORS Antiques 21-4-24 One of the biggest-ever collections of Minneapolis Moline tractors and memorabilia can be found inside an old dairy barn near Paris, Ontario. Alex and Don Sutherland welcome visitors year-round to their "museum in a barn". A milk house that adjoins the 80 by 100-ft. barn has been converted to an old-time dealership complete with a parts counter, parts bins, and a sales office. Minneapolis Moline toys, advertising literature and service manuals, quart oil cans, oil filters, service station signs, and other items are also on display. They even have Minneapolis Moline pedal tractors. "It's not a complete collection of every-thing the company ever made, but the variety of items is unusual," says Alex. "We have more than 60 Minneapolis Moline tractors with about 45 or 50 of them restored. We also have Minneapolis Moline cultivators, plows, silage choppers, combines, and more. How-ever, the center piece of our collection is a fully restored ætwo star' crawler tractor which was built in very limited numbers. Minneapolis Moline tractors were built from 1929 to 1973. Our oldest models are a KTA and an FTA which go back to the early 1930's." "We started collecting the tractors 22 years ago. Most of them came from western Canada, with a few from the U.S. and the rest from Ontario. We started collecting them because when we were kids we always farmed with them. We started with the R, G, and U models and all of a sudden we kept finding more and more tractors." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Don Sutherland, Dunveen Museum, RR 2, Paris, Ontario, Canada N3L 3E2 (ph 519 442-3028 or 2972).

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