Vintage Horticultural and Garden Machinery Club

I also consider the proposed band is too narrow, at a stroke you would exclude a wide range of vintage horticultural tractors that although 8-10 HP have capacity over 700cc being multi cylinder
such as Newman, Kendal, David Brown 2D, Byron, President, OTA, Singer Monarch and Kent Pony.
From my own experience it does not work to plough with a…[Read more]

Have you tried Classic Tractor Books, Mr Stephen Moate
Website http://www.classictractors.co.uk, tel 01377 270209

I think the oil companies were keen to promote there lubricants for use in machines and offered attractive deals to manufacturers. Mr Fred Brookes co founder of OTA told me Castrol supplied the OTA brass makers plate with lubricants listed on it together with all necessary lubricants for each new tractor for 6d (2.5 new pence).This was a help to…[Read more]

No doubt sewage treatment has developed since the Ransome MG based sand skimmers reached the end of there working lives but it seems there is still a need for filter bed sand skimmers and one machine is the skimmer based on a Morrish crawler built in Devon.
You could say it is the “grandson” of the Ransomes based unit but with a 3 cylinder kubota…[Read more]

Thank you for your assistance
I had a thought and contacted Jim Wilkie, he told me the Chippenham Club was one of the NVTEC regional clubs but folded about 20 years ago, but he did not remember anybody of that name or the publication

I was sorry to see that you were parting with your collection and more so to read it was due to ill health.
However I think you can look back with pride to the Ransomes MG display you organised at Tractor World, a real master class in how to put on a display.
The article in the Cultivator by Patrick Knight together with the extra items added by…[Read more]

Thanks for your response, it is quite surprising how many of these early makers developed and Cambridge moved to Bristol because of transport links and he was selling his products to overseas.

I had always thought the Cambridge roll took its name from where the design had originated like the Essex wagon.
I have another cast roll end made by…[Read more]

Funnily enough opened up my sunday newspaper and there is a article on the Talking Pictures channel run by a chap and his daughter from a shed in there garden.
He obtained rights to a lot of Black and white films and television series for which makers thought there was no interest or demand.Watching audience for the channel is several million.
The…[Read more]

I do not know if any of you watch talking pictures channel 81 on Freeview, early morning they show all sorts of Goverment information films as short fillers, many I find interesting and one in recent weeks was a Ministry of Agriculture film on the construction of field storage clamps for potatoes and also carrots.They went through stage by stage…[Read more]

Reading those Allen’s activities It has made me ponder how employment has changed, how the Allen family with the decline of the steam manufacture and hire side of the company and in a period of economic depression they looked to developing other products to keep there workers in employment and such things as the Fairground rides and also electric…[Read more]

How interesting, it is always surprising what companies were involved in. On holiday in Sri Lanka we visited a tea factory and some of the tea processing machinery had been manufactured by Ransomes in 1948 and was still in use. Sadly more modern machinery came from China.

During this isolation period I have been reading some Allens of Oxford…[Read more]

The other tractor listed by this seller is a “K.J Hemingway Tractor”

Mr K.J Hemingway was the managing director of Pattisons based at Stanmore at the time in a former brewery, a lovely old fashioned gentleman he entertained me to tea and biscuits in his office back in 1981 when I was doing some research on a Pattison RCT tractor I had. He pulled…[Read more]

On our Monarch tractor which has the same size and ply rating front tyres, the tyre pressure is maximum 20 psi

regards FP

With a cast front your tractor is a MK1

If it was a early MK1 (yellow and red colours) the chassis and engine number would be on a cast aluminium makers plate mounted on the right chassis.

From what I can see your tractor is the Co-op Blue colour and the chassis has fixing holes for the underslung toolframe so I think this is a later MK1 where…[Read more]

Having a sort out at present and came across a spare parts list for a Martin Markham all steel 70/90 Trailer with a A3 size centre fold exploded view of the trailer with blow up’s of hydraulics, brakes, hitch etc

Send me a PM with your E mail details and I will scan and send to you.
Unlike yours it has steel deck and sides but running gear and…[Read more]