The 8-16 Mogul was manufactured by McCormick (International Harvester Company) in 1915. Its serial number is SB11203. It had 8 drawbar horsepower and 16 belt pulley horsepower. It had one forward and reverse speed: 1.5 miles per hour.

During the three years McCormick sold the Mogul (1914, 1915, and 1916) 14,065 were sold. In 1915 one-third of the 15,000 tractors sold in the United States were Moguls. The remaining two-thirds were divided among 57 other tractor manufacturers.

The State Agricultural Heritage Museum's Mogul was used on a farm east of Dell Rapids, South Dakota. This Mogul's plowing career was short. After a couple of rounds, the owner said, he found the tractor to be too slow, "a jackrabbit could walk faster backwards." For the remainder of its working life it was used as a source of belt-power.