THE SANDWICH MANUFACTURING COMPANY

  Before balers, hay presses were used to compress hay into bales. Before hay presses, hay was stored loose in the upper floor of the farmer...

  Augustus Adams started developing binders and reapers in the summer of 1850 while he was still living in Elgin. He was the first to introd...

                                                             Thanks  to Gary Moss for the above  picture of the Reliance binder             ...

 Charles Hartman of Sandwich was an employee of Sandwich Manufacturing Company for many years.  In 1919 he applied for a patent for improvem...

I received these pictures a few days ago from a long time friend. These early engines are in excellent original condition  and I thought I’d...

 It's nice to see a Sandwich sheller on the front page, even though there is no accompanying story anywhere in this newspaper.   By the ...

 Here are two fine examples of Letterheads from Sandwich Manufacturing Company. From the collection of Chris Phillips, thanks for allowing m...