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Maltsov Traction Engines

Poster
ca. 1930 (made)
Artist/Maker

General Description: Soviet poster advertising traction engines with a list of uses, usable fuels, the company's address and trading offices. Printed by Transprint N.K.P.S. Moscow, published by Tranpechati.

Object details

Object type
TitleMaltsov Traction Engines (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Colour half tone
Brief description
Poster advertising Maltsov Traction Engines from the Lindinov factory. Russia, ca. 1930.
Physical description
General Description: Soviet poster advertising traction engines with a list of uses, usable fuels, the company's address and trading offices. Printed by Transprint N.K.P.S. Moscow, published by Tranpechati.
Dimensions
  • Height: 71.3cm
  • Width: 105.8cm
71.3 x 105.8 cm
Object history
The uses listed are: threshing machines, flour grinders, hulling mills, saw mills, work on peat, electrification on farms, manufacture of bricks, soap, starching "and many other things". The fuels listed are: coal, wood, straw, wood chippings, pods and peelings, bones, peat, shale oil, agricultural oil cake. The factory address is the State Maltsovsky Works, Maltsovcombinat [industrial complex], head office Miashitskaya Street 8, Moscow.
Collection
Accession number
E.1259-1989

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Record createdDecember 9, 2008
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