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Our 1980’s commercial Jacobsen ride-on which is used every week was registered on to a Q plate about two years ago, needless to say it’s tyres have never touched the highway yet and I doubt they ever will! It’s nice to have a number plate on it but it wasn’t really necessary.

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Tom

Members have road registered garden tractors before so it is possible!

As far as I remember if not requiring an age related plate then a V55 Form, Your ID, Valid Insurance (NFU etc) and some pictures of the tractor then take all the paperwork to a DVLA office.

An age related plate also requires either an original sales invoice or proof of manufacture and if it’s a non-UK tractor then proof of export may be required.

I’d check with the DVLA and the V55 form as a starting point – it may have changed. The V55 can be ordered from the DVLA website.

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It’s a Geest!

Geest Truck – IMGtruck044

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I’ve never heard of the Fortuna tractor or come across anything when sorting the photos.

As you’ll know OTA tractors were exported to Australia and possibly elsewhere. I wonder if the ‘Fortuna’ name may have been for export purposes?

1952 Australian advert attached.

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I was going to ask if you had some photos but it appears the photo was larger than the specified file size.

Where did you get the Uni Horse from? Was it from an auction site or a local sale? It may be that the tractor was owned by someone that a club member knows.

There is some information in the book ‘Seventy Years of Garden Machinery’.

Also do you know which engine your tractor has and also which model the tractor is?

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Hi James,

I have spoken with Charlie and the following link should bring up the various payment options.

Firstly you must log in (otherwise it’ll ask you to re-register) then go to the page vhgmc.co.uk/mem-reg/

Scroll down to your relevant subscription i.e. UK Single Member then click the ‘Sign Up’ button to take you to the Paypal payment screen.

Alan

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Thank you for the photos, Geoff.

I’m told I should have gone to Malvern this year but I hadn’t finished my exhibits and before I knew it the show was upon us.

Yes, I did notice the coffee being poured by a fellow member in the first set of photos.

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Many thanks for all the images that have been sent. There are some fascinating images.

Trusty-mad thank you for the ‘bike’ images which I’ve now archived.

In total there is now 7559 images and I still have a couple of hundred more to go at!

Some really good images like the one below:

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Andy,

I think you are correct. The Westwood machine brochure shows a tractor pulling an implement through cultivated easy allotment ground and nothing tougher.

It certainly tells a lot that there isn’t a plough anywhere in the numerous Westwood brochures I have.

Westwood probably thought folk may wish to do some cultivating and introduced the tiller attachment in the above brochure photo to try and expand the tractors capabilities and appeal somewhat.

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A couple of brochure images for reference:

I have all the Westwood brochures showing all the attachments. There isn’t a plough shown, which possibly means it wasn’t suitable to pulling one. There is though the Rotodynamic Cultivator on an 11hp tractor so looking at the photos it is capable of pulling something through easy allotment ground.

For some sort of tractor comparison I have the Roper tractor brochures and the 18hp garden tractor can have either an 18hp twin Briggs or a 18hp Kohler Magnum engine. Tractor has a range of implements including a 10″ plough. Also has manual implement lift.

The Roper tractor is a stronger built machine than a Westwood and therefore can take a plough as intended.

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We adapted a Merry Tiller plough to go on the diesel John Deere which actually worked although I only played with it a couple of times to see. I’ve never tried anything on a Westwood or similar yet.

For weight comparison my 10hp 1965 Cub Cadet 100 has a standard Brinley plough. The tractor weighs 347Kg and the plough weighs 31Kg. It has manual implement lift and at present I haven’t tried ploughing with it but as it’s a standard set up and in the brochure it should be perfect!

The Cub was built to take a range of implements and is suitably built to do so, is this Westwood more of a mowing machine?

The plough is: Brinley Plough

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Thank you all for the suggestions.

Zenoah and Xenoah are two names I have never heard off before but connections with Allen, Danarm and Rupp are spot on.

I shall have a look and see if there are any photos that they are associated with and finish the A-Z.

Many thanks.

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There appears to be a make of machinery for almost every letter of the alphabet except for X and Z.

If anyone can think of anything suitable for X or Z then the club can say it has a list of machines for every letter.

I’ve looked through the 70 Years of Garden Machinery book and cannot spy anything yet!

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Thank you, Geoff. I’m a little bleary eyed. Just another 355 photos left!

I would like to add that the gallery has only been possible because the VHGMC members have generously submitted photos of a vast range and multitude of machines and gadgets. Indeed the gallery has ended up far greater than ever expected. It’s probably the best photo reference for UK horticultural machinery – thank you VHGMC members.

I worked out that over 99% of the photos are of machines that are physically in the UK, even if the machine in question was originally made in the US, Australia, Europe or anywhere else.

It is quite an eye-opener when sifting through photographs as similarities between machines start to become apparent. Near identical machines labelled up with different manufacturers logos or decals are not uncommon.

As expected there are gaps in the gallery with some manufacturers and machines missing. If anything is missing then members can of course let us know. Photos posted on the forum can be added to the gallery pages by admin as long as we know what the machine is of course! If I’ve wrongly labelled anything on the galleries then you can also type a revision under the relevant photo and we can correct it.

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There are some other Jalo adverts that I’ve just put on the Jalo archive – haven’t done the actual equipment yet.

Very similar types of adverts for the Jalo and Westo!

Jalo

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