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Interestingly a diesel Ransomes MG40 is for sale on a certain auction site ex France which has the hydraulic ram rear lift
Some good photographs on the listing give the MG chassis number but also the French manufacturers plate on the rear lift attachment.
I think this supports the idea that to get around protective French import duties on imported goods to help French home manufacturers, Ransomes were exported to France and fitted with French produced attachments
If I remember correctly this is what “Expeatfarmer” said was the situation with his back actor attachment.
The MG40 for sale also has the bonnet fitment but a different colour, is that the colour for exports ?.I know exported Ransomes ploughs and other implements had a different colour scheme rather than the normal home Blues.
Interesting item but will Santa have deep pockets and a large chimney to bring home to some lucky chap for Christmas
I did sow the seeds with “you can’t do too much for a good husband” but it fell on stony ground with the reply “you can’t do enough for a bad one ” !!!!!

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Interesting discussion I wonder we do not see more Brinly ploughs although the digger body may not be ideal for a ploughing match.
Attached is the front page of a Brinly brochure showing the plough,the plough seems to have a lot of width adjustment on the cross member and shows a rear depth wheel not shown on the other photographs in this topic

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I received my Cultivator today, I think it is a credit to the Club and is developing into a publication which the Club members will find interesting whatever there particular interest is.
The Club is a pretty broad church but the breadth of topics covered is a tribute to the members who contributed and the skill of our Editor Alan Rogers in compiling it.
There was a lot of correspondence in the past about the lack of vintage horticultural and gardening machinery interest by commercial publishing ,well the VHGMC is well on the way to meeting that need in the Cultivator.
We must not however rest on our laurels, winter is ahead use those dark nights or wet weekends to look out those interesting photographs, write about that interesting restoration or record that great event you visited or interesting item you came across.
The Editor cannot continue to produce a quality Cultivator without the support and contributions from the members, so the solution rests with us the members.

regards
Joe Paget

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Richard,
Please find attached copy of Sales Leaflet for the Mansley Rotary Cultivator manufactured by Gregson & Monk Ltd, Agricultural Machinery Dept, Vulcan Iron Works, Preston.Lancashire.

Two models were available, the 30″ wide model for the MG5 and the wider 36″ model for the MG6 and MG40
30″ model cost £132 and 36″ model £140 delivered to your railway station
The central drive Mansley had a advantage over the side driven Rotary Hoes (Howard) alternative in that it could work right up to wall of greenhouses as shown on the Sales Leaflet.
Both were “Approved” implements for use with the Ransomes MG
regards
Joe Paget

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You may find it interesting and informative to view the PRESIDENT TRACTOR FORUM

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The VHGMC is and always has been a “broad church” of enthusiasts who I have found whatever there particular favourites are also interested in the subject in general.
Many of the lightweight tractor manufacturers in a effort to increase markets produced “industrial” versions David Brown 2D, Garner or Winget to just name a few and close to me Lea Francis Unihorse and OTA tractors were industrial tow tugs in factories and the local railway station had a Nuffield mini tractor on platform goods haulage.
So I tend myself to think industrial versions of machines are a intrinsic part of the story and to ignore or exclude them would diminish what we as a movement are hoping to achieve

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Lovely job you have there, you do not see many of this model Uni-Horse about and looking at dates on literature I have it must be 50 years old !!
AS you have the optional rear wheel weights (original cost £10) you are well set up for ploughing with the 10″ plough or using the cultivator,rotary cultivator or discs.

Uni-Horse seemed to offer a wide range of optional equipment for these machines in a effort I presume to cater for all sorts of users

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Resized photographs of transfers plus a couple more showing lift up cultivator frame lifted by pulley on pto with cable over lifting frame on rear of machine

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Good machine with what looks like a original drive belt

A old chap (78)in the next village still uses his Ploughmate for his potato growing preferring it to the grey ferguson and ransomes mg he also has.
Just a word of caution a friend of mine had one which his son decided to start up, in gear it pulled him over and then went through the garden shed in one side out the other not breaking the cast front, it did stall when the steel wheels got caught in the chicken run wire fence and wound the fence around the wheels demolishing the run with distressed chickens heading in all directions
Those steel wheels do have some grip, once saw one being loaded onto trailer,owner released clutch to stop machine but belt rode up onto pulley flange and continued driving taking machine over trailer front onto drawbar and then steel wheels bit into car hatchback and up into rear window before falling sideways off back of roof. what a mess.
You make mental note and remember but I sometimes think we have regulations about using our machines at events and I have no problems with that but on reflection I have seen more mishaps in loading and unloading at events.

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Not sure about cast fronts being painted red ,none of the BMB literature I have shows painted fronts even black and white there is distinct lighter colour to fronts
There would also appear to be various patterns of cast front
At the end of the day as with paint colours it is your machine and a “as found” condition to me just records the life of the machine
Couple of illustrations from literature attached

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Couple of excerts from original brochure to show universal toolbar and plough and range of attachments

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Tyre size is 20 x 4
Brockhouse engine is the industrial version of Spryt engine two stroke 1:20 mix,engine was also used in Brockhouse corgi mini motorbike for paratroopers, in bike is kick start in hoemate recoil starter
Interesting attachment would be front cutterbar or trailer with brakes and seat !!

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I thought the various machines and tools displayed by VHGMC reflected very well on the Club not only in interest, standard of restoration and original machines but also the range of machinery and information displayed
You would wonder why Ransomes did not promote and develop the industrial side of the MG tractors seeing those machines displayed, you can only surmise they did not want to upset the established manufacturers who “approved” Ransome implements for use with there tractors no doubt a bigger earner at the time.

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600 x 22 are available in USA as 750 x22 from Miller Tire who also supply the stockists in Australia
They are the remaining stock from the last batch produced by Firestone/Bridgestone and the price reflects this.
This size was fitted as standard to OTA and Monarch tractors but the other optional tyre size originally offered by OTA and Singer was 750 x20 which you can obtain or the grassland tyre 800 x 19.
It is not only the tyre you need to consider but inner tubes as I recently found out and am on the advise of my local tyre specialist experimenting with , some 600 x 19 inner tubes inside otherwise sound 600 x 22 tyres, so far so good

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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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