Pathe news reel- Machinery demonstration 1949

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January 14, 2015 at 8:51 pm #11444

terrano
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I just came across this video of a walk behind machinery demonstration in 1949. I havent seen it posted before so I thought it might be of interest.

January 15, 2015 at 7:52 pm #11453

charlie
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Some great footage. Now who can list all the different machines shown?

January 15, 2015 at 8:28 pm #11456

joegrgraham
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Great video, but who got the job of catching the Fordson???

Joe.

January 16, 2015 at 12:12 pm #11460

charlie
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I have seen another film with a Rototiller doing the same unmanned trick, all in the good old days before Health & Safety.

January 16, 2015 at 3:49 pm #11461

trusty-mad
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whats the machine at 1:00?

January 18, 2015 at 11:16 pm #11487

will-haggle
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That, I think, is a Wild Midget….

January 21, 2015 at 9:51 pm #11510

sidevalve44
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Of course in the good old days before Health & safety, people were regularly killed or maimed, and as for those contraptions spraying potentially dangerous chemicals for the operator to walk into and breathe in they don’t bear thinking about !!

February 4, 2015 at 6:32 pm #11587

steve-d
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what a fab film very impressed as I saw the colwood with the rotary disc mower on the front and ive only ever seen pictures of this.
grrrrrrreat.

February 16, 2015 at 5:36 pm #11709
franktonpaget
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Not only interesting but informative , the machine being towed by the Ransomes MG is a Weeks Swing Fan Dusting Machine,I had never seen one with the discharge fan so low but looking at the one I have found a lever which gives six different positions for the fan outlet
I understand the machines were intended for fan blown application of chemical dusting powders to fruit trees,hops and ground crops the one I have came from a blackcurrent growing farm.
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