Champion vs. Case

A trial between D. June & Co.’s “Champion” engine and an engine of J.I. Case & Co.

November/December 1956
Courtesy J.P. SMITH 
Fireproof Champion Engine
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The D. June & Co., Freemont, Ohio, “Fireproof Champion” engine. Mr. Gilbert Enders of Bellevue, Ohio, is the proud owner and restorer of this only operating “Champion” we know about. He is engaged to exhibit the engine at the Ohio State Fair this year. Mr. and Mrs. Enders are in the picture.
courtesy Gilbert Enders
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From the Fremont Weekly Journal, Friday, July 20, 1877, Vol. 48, No. 30:

A trial between D. June & Co.’s “Champion” engine and an engine of J.I. Case & Co., of Racine, Wisconsin, results in favor of the “Champion.”

For some time past the firm of  D. June & Co., have been hearing that agents of the Case engine had been running the merits of the Champion down; and they have been waiting an opportunity to put these claims to the test. Last Saturday an opportunity came to hand and they availed themselves of it. A Case engine was set up on the farm of Anthony Schwint near Muscalunge, the old farm of Geo. Rimselpach and Schwint requested the June engine be on hand, and it was, Mr. Schwint was to take the best engine.

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The Case engine was started to work first threshing wheat. It was fired up and when the steam was up to 65 lbs., the thresher was put in motion; in about fifteen minutes the steam dropped down to 35 pounds and finally, the engine stopped with 40 lbs. of steam. The boiler commenced foaming at a terrible rate and continued so until they stopped. It threshed about one bushel of grain per minute. The Champion then started with 40 lbs. of steam and in ten minutes ran up to 100 lbs. and there remained. Her rate of threshing was two bushels in one minute and five seconds and did this with one half the fuel and watt.

After supper the spark arresting patent of each engine was most thoroughly tested. The Champion ran for 45 minutes and not a spark escaped. Five dollars a spark was offered for every one that could be counted. Then the Case was started, and for the first half hour it was almost a continual run of sparks; sometimes one spark and then again a dozen until it had been run about 30 minutes when the sparks ceased appearing. One spark in the afternoon came from the Case engine, and dropping on a stick of wood on the water barrel set it on fire. This trial seemed to satisfy the minds of all present and they informed Schwint that he could not thresh on their farms with a Case engine thus making the pressure so strong that he would not let the Champion leave his farm, but came up Monday and bought it from the manufacturers.

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