c. 1925 Gray "Canadian Special" 22-40 Tractor

 This tractor (serial #9036) was manufactured by the Gray Tractor Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With its unique rear drum wheel and large hood, this tractor's design tends to get people's attentions. Stuhr Museum's Gray tractor reportedly cost $2,525 and was used to power a well near Sutton, Nebraska, a town in Clay County.
 With its roots in a farm tractor developed by W. Chandler Knapp of New York, the Gray Tractor Manufacturing Company was created in Minneapolis in 1914 to produce the first Gray tractors. In 1917, the company reorganized and became simply the Gray Tractor Company. In 1925, the company reorganized again and focused its production on the Canadian Special, which it made from 1925 to 1933.

The Tractor Field Review (Chicago:
Farm Implement News, 1919), p. 50.