What is the meaning of the term "traction engine"?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from John Goodison Thresher Co. v. Township of McNab, 1909 CanLII 12 (ON CA):
The general understanding of the meaning of the term “traction engine” is that it is a name given to a locomotive used for drawing waggons along a highway, which would ordinarily apply to an engine moving a threshing machine or separator along the highway from one farm to another. And probably the decision in Pattison v. Township of Wainfleet should be regarded as turning upon the special facts in evidence in the case.
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