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1978 ASAE Past-President and University of Nebraska agricultural engineering department head Bill Splinter (second from I) visited with North Dakota State University retired agricultural engineering department chair Bill Promersberger (l) and Dexter Johnson and Elton Salseng (r and far r). Splinter was in charge of moving the 1909 Model MinneapolisFord tractor from Alsen, N.D., to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Tractor Test and Power Museum at Lincoln, Neb. This tractor is one of two known to remain and is the only one restored to running condition. The overrated/advertised performance of this tractor made it responsible for the 1919 Nebraska tractor test law that required performance tests of all tractor models sold in Nebraska. The Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory is known worldwide and is the only one of its kind in the United States.