Anyone heard of HORTAG Bulldog?

[charlie]

I found this advert in a 1953 issue of The Smallholder and Home Gardening magazine. Has anyone ever heard of this company or machine?

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[stevewoollas]

Hello Charlie,
Not heard of the Hortag Bulldog but interesting to see particularly with the difficulties Howard had with Lanz over the name Bulldog.
We have a Hortag mechanical spade which is very similar to the Terex mechanical spade in our collection. As with Terex, Hortag also produced a fork version.–Steve

[mickattwo]

Bulldog was a brand of hedgelayers and forest hand tools probably amalgamated with Hortag to make the tractor

[charlie]

Thanks for replies.
Steve, I found a photo on the Cheffins website showing the Hortag spade. Like you I wondered how they faired using the Bulldog name, knowing the problem encountered by Howard.

[mickattwo]

I have and use a “Bulldog” billhook. Does a good job . but is very pitted and not well forged No other markings probably counterfiet

[charlie]

I asked the Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology and they had not heard of Hortag. I am following up their suggestion of a request for information via the Brimscombe parish newsletter.

[trustymasseyman]

Please see photo of hortag fork & spade with wolf terrex fork & spade on the outside. Hope this is of interest

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[charlie]

Ivan thanks for photos. I remember my father having one of those, I also remember one in the auction at Tractor World a couple of years ago.

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