When the Fairbanks Morse Company was first formed in 1823 it wasn’t gasoline engines it was building, but platform scales. The company got into the engine business in the late 1890s and became one of the most popular and successful gasoline engine and then diesel engine manufactures. This 15-25 (15 horsepower on the drawbar and 25 on the belt) was the company's first venture into traction engines and was designed around their 25 horsepower gasoline engine. By 1915 the company was out of the trac