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JACOBSEN Brand History

Jacobsen Manufacturing was founded in the early of 20th century by Danish Knud Jacobsen  As a trained carpenter, Jacobsen made patterns for automobiles, agricultural machinery and electrical appliances. Jacobsen restructured his business as Thor Machine Works in 1917. In 1921, he published the 4-acre lawn mower, a gasoline reel mower marketed by Jacobsen Manufacturing. The company continued to produce mowers for homes and golf courses in the 1920s and 1930s and was not damaged by the Great Depression. Knud Jacobsen retired in 1939 and was replaced by his son Oscar Jacobsen as president.

In 1945, Jacobsen Manufacturing acquired the Worthington Mower Company of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, known for its belt mowers for golf courses, parks and airfields. In 1949, the new subsidiary began manufacturing Model G Tractors with Ford Tractor components, primarily for use in parks and golf courses. The company introduced new products in 1955, such as a compressor mounted on a tractor. It continued to make lawnmowers in Stroudsburg for the maintenance of the golf course and for residential purposes, until it was closed in 1959. Jacobsen was manufactured until the mid-1960s under the brand Worthington.

The company had purchased the Johnston Lawn Mower Company located in Ottumwa, Iowa, and used that division to enter the home mower market, offering roll and rotary mowers for this market in the 1950s. The spearmower came out in the late 1950s, and the Jacobsen Chief Garden Tractor was launched in 1961 with the 100A, which was electrically started with 7 hp Kohler K161, and the 100B, which was rope start with 7 hp Kohler K161. In 1965, Ford entered the garden tractor market with two models, the T-800, which was powered by an 8-hp Kohler K181 and the T-1000 with a 10-hp Kohler K241.

In 1966, Jacobsen Chief Tractors started with a Peerless 2300 and steering was improved as well as a style change. Jacobsen made tractors for Oliver, Ford, Minneapolis-Moline and White. Jacobsen also made light farm tractor tractors with innovative implements to make the tractors more useful and qualify them for tax breaks. Textron acquired Jacobsen in 1975, but continued to produce Jacobsen garden tractors in the 1990s.