The Huber Manufacturing Co. of Marion, Ohio was founded in 1865 by Edward Huber, a German immigrant. Early products included steam traction engines and threshing equipment, but in 1898, HUber bought the patents to the Van Duzen tractor design. This was a single-cylinder, gasoline-powered machine, and Huber built 30 examples of this design with limited success. Tractor production was subsequently put on hold until 1911, when Huber produced the so-called "Farmers Tractor", a two-cylinder 12-20 hp machine with a large screen-type radiator at the rear for cooling and a front-mounted seat. The following year, this layout was reversed for the 13-22 "Farmers Tractor", which was later uprated to a 15-30. Also in 1912, a huge 30-60 prairie-style tractor was built, which resembled in many ways the highly successful Big Four 30 made by the Gas Traction Co. In common with other comapnies, the end of the decade saw a move towards lighter tractor designs - the Huber Light Four 12-25, with its crossmount engine and large front wheels, appeared in 1917, followed by the more powerful Super Four 15-30 in 1921. These tractors proved immensely popular, and the Light Four and Super Four names was kept when Huber introduced more conventional looking tractors with in-line engines in the mid 1920s. The 1930s saw a new range of light tractor, now with rubber tyres as an option, but these could not compete with similar machines being built by larger manufacturers. Around the time of the Second World War, Huber finally ceased tractor production altogether, although they continued to build a range of construction equipment.

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