Inventors and Innovators with Dick Braun (Part 2)

Tales from the Mennonite Heritage Archives – Episode 86

Dick Braun, interview guest (Screen capture from Saskatchewan Mennonite Historian, Volume 27, No. 3, 2022, pp 22)
Copy of Isaak Loeppky's page from the Reinlander Gemeinde Buch 1880-1903, MHA vol. #1107-297 (Photo credit Shaye Neufeld)
The Garden King is a one of a kind, scaled down four wheel drive garden tractor with articulated steering designed and built by brothers Jake and Henry Fehr (Rhineland Sask., south of Swift Current) in 1969-70. The design won 2nd place in a contest sponsored by Mechanics Illustrated magazine in 1970. (Screen capture from Saskatchewan Mennonite Historian, No. 2, 2014, pp 22)
Brothers John and Peter Giesbrecht (Rheinland, Sask, north of Osler) designed and built a wooden snowmobile circa 1952 (Screen capture from Saskatchewan Mennonite Historian, 2014 No. 3, pp 23)

It’s time for Part 2 of our conversation with Dick Braun of Osler, Sask., which focuses on the prolific innovator, Julius Klassen. Klassen became known in the metal manufacturing industry, most notably for his machine that could manufacture engine radiators of any size, right up to units for sea-faring ships.

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Podcast Series: Tales from the Mennonite Heritage Archives
Episode 86: Inventors and Innovators with Dick Braun (Part 2)
Date: October 4, 2026
Host: Dan Dyck
Published by The Mennonite Heritage Archives

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