The most popular model and year was the R-J58 Wheel Horse 1958, it came without a mowing deck, but one could be added.
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By 1957, his Wheel Horse Products company recorded sales over $ 1 million ( US $ } } in dollars ) for the first time.
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In mid-August 1986, Wheel Horse was sold off from Munn and purchased for $ 8 million by New Holland models built under contract by Toro.
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Some time after the final shutdown of the Wheel Horse line in 1983, all remaining parts and dies were sold to Bill Gunn, a dealer in Edgerton, Wisconsin.
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The new management responded with tactical moves by selling the lawn care Wheel Horse Products Division and signing an agreement to build Jeeps in the People's Republic of China.
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Warren G . Harding : " Third-rate political wheel horse, with the face of a moving-picture actor, the intelligence of a respectable agricultural implement dealer and the imagination of a lodge joiner.
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On 7 August 2011, Darren Whitehead & Tony Dwight travelled from John o'Groats to Lands'End ( including crossing the Welsh border ) in 5 days using two ride-on Wheel Horse Lawn Mowers.
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At first, the Ponds'company was simply called Pond Tractor Company; however, they discovered another family member owned a similarly-named company . " Wheel Horse " was then chosen, and the name stayed with the company until its demise as a separate operation of the Toro companies in the 1980s.
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For the 1965 model year, Wheel Horse Products, Inc ., of South Bend, Indiana, USA, introduced the first garden tractors equipped with an hydraulic CVT . The models 875 and 1075 included an Eaton-manufactured variable-displacement swash-plate pump and fixed-displacement gear-type hydraulic motor combined into a single compact package, which attached directly to the patented Wheel Horse Unidrive " ! transaxle.
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For the 1965 model year, Wheel Horse Products, Inc ., of South Bend, Indiana, USA, introduced the first garden tractors equipped with an hydraulic CVT . The models 875 and 1075 included an Eaton-manufactured variable-displacement swash-plate pump and fixed-displacement gear-type hydraulic motor combined into a single compact package, which attached directly to the patented Wheel Horse Unidrive " ! transaxle.
