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Thanks for the question, Plonker.

As the internet has grown it’s now easier for people to find answers to their machinery questions on many different websites, social media or numerous sources. This means that people no longer have to actually post a question to find their answer. On a positive the throughput of people searching the website, looking at the gallery and articles is quite impressive, so although we don’t see people they are there.

The club website also holds the database from the old forum and that is incredibly heavily searched on a daily basis. With members having posted such a huge amount of information over the years then the VHGMC online presence has been a staggeringly positive one.

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Items from the Saturday auction.

Including:
British Anzani
Garner Tractor
BMB
Trusty with plough, toolframe,disc, cambridge roller etc.
Ransomes MG5 with plough
Rollo Croftmaster
Gunsmith
Allen Scythe
Ransomes mowers
Browns of Leighton Buzzard hoe

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Including:

1941 Lister DH 1.5hp engine
1972 MF8 Tractor
1959 AutoCulto Universal
Planet Jnr Hoes
1953 Howard Bantam Queens Coronation
1986 Ransomes TurfTrak 425
1964 Howard Hako
1956 Rollo Croftmaster

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One machine I would like to find, but probably never will, is one of the first Bolens brought to the UK in the 1920’s.

I used to teach garden history amongst other horticultural stuff so hence the machinery research and articles.

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Ian

Have a good time at the show. Are you just visiting or exhibiting?

Alan

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That’ll be a Tecumseh or Aspera engine then?

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John

There’s some info on the old forum archive which may be of help:

https://www.tractorbox.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=757

Also found this reference from the early 1970’s. “an M1 Super at around £116 with a 3 h.p. engine, there are the Estate at £130, fitted with a 4h.p. engine, and the Monarch at £140.50, fitted with a 5 h.p. engine”.

Mountfield is now owned by another company so information or archives may no longer be available or may be lost.

Alan

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The only image I can find in my archives for a Little Giant chainsaw is an advert from 1963 with the Little Giant being mentioned as ‘Specially designed for one-handed use. Ideal for lopping and pruning. 5″ cut. price £28.0.0’.

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Hi Stew

The best bits of some of the machinery is the fact that there’s hand-held equipment that goes with them.

There’s some info which may be of interesst on the forum archive:

https://www.tractorbox.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7049

Alan

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Thank you for the chart, it’s helpful to see that.

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Thanks for the info, Geoff. I’ll look into it and report back.

Mountfield brought a low number of Elec-traks into the country along with a few other oddities whilst importing wheelhorse stuff, quite interesting really what can be found in the UK when I started looking. I spoke to someone today who has now told me where there are some archive details regarding the electric tractors brought in by Mountfield which is interesting.

You never know I might have just cornered the market in rare electric tractors!

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I think the noise is also partly due to the gearbox being bolted to what is essentially a big metal box of a chassis and it acts as a loud speaker.

Wristpin, thanks for the info about the grease, I will check on the lubrication aspect, it’s always good to have others input on these things.

The gearbox tag says it is a Peerless 1216 of the old type. The instructions from 1973 say it apparently requires 2 pints of SAE EP90. I will have changed it at some point during it’s overhaul but it’s that long ago that I cannot remember! I will check.

Gearbox looks like this:

[alan]

It’s a peerless gearbox as far as I recall, the aluminium tag is still attached to the gearbox.

I’ll certainly have a look at the lubricant in the gearbox, won’t go amiss to check it, can’t remember what grade it is, I have all the instructions so will look it up.

The mechanics are not noisy it’s just that the turning of the components can be heard – the other tractors on Youtube sound exactly the same as mine so I don’t think there’s anything amiss. It’s also unusual to hear or see an electric tractor so the sounds become more noticeable if that makes sense?!!

[alan]

Thanks for posting your updates, nice to read what someone else is doing. It’d be good to see some photo’s when it’s all finished.

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