Centaur Tractor
New Way Motor Company
·New Way Motor Company was born out of "The Clarkmobile Company" in 1905.
William Newbrough as treasurer and Charles Way engineer, were the prime movers of the company with Charles Way as the prime ideas man for the Air Cooled Engines produced by the company. Automobiles continued to be produced using New Way engines till 1907.
Production actually commenced in a combined facility little more than a simple shed 100 feet long.
By 1910 with product demand and expansion the company was operating from a massive well serviced factory.
· New Way manufactured 1 and 2 cylinder Air Cooled engines up to 12 Hp in horizontal and vertical cylinder format
· Vertical single cylinder 3.5 Hp and 6Hp horizontal twin cylinder Type C aircooled "Hit Miss" vertical engines were among the first productions. These were quickly followed by a 2.5Hp single cylinder version of the same Type C.
Our Centaur Tractor
Central Tractor Company
·Before there was Centaur, there was the Central Tractor Company. Based in Greenwich, Ohio, they got their start around 1919. By 1921, they’d built a small factory on a 3-acre plot and started cranking out a modest little tractor called the Model A. It was a walk-behind/sulky-style machine powered by a 6-horsepower, air-cooled two-cylinder engine from New Way.