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Tested November 2026
No farm tractor was manufactured in North Liberty in any register searched. The marque and maker registers, the county histories and this build's own manufacturing record were searched under the town's firms and names. The town's vehicle works — Cole Brothers, then the North Liberty Manufacturing Company — built wagons and buggies and stopped there (automobiles leg); no traction engine, steam or gasoline, carries the firm's name in the record reached, so even the ancestor class returns a negative here: the threshing-machine and steam-traction works that precede the tractor in the big-city files have no North Liberty instance found. The garden-tractor exception was tested separately and returns the same answer: no Wheel Horse of this town, no forty-year garden-tractor maker, and no contested garden-tractor claim to print whole — the dispute class is empty because the manufacture class is empty. The boundary prints in the same breath: the Oliver tractors a Liberty Township farmer bought after 1929 were another city's tractors under a South Bend name, and the Harvester line was Chicago's; a same-brand tractor in a township barn is evidence of a dealer network, not of a local works.