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This looks like a good topic for the Cultivator. We sometimes have a repair area at Semington where non-runners can be worked on by Charlie and Trustybloke but always put a sheet down…
Pic. 1. John Philips’ British Holder being worked on..
Pic. 2. Success! Holder running!

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What’s the plumbing in the fuel plpe?

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Most Trac-grips I’ve seen have a BSA 420 engine, some later Villiers engines were badged as JAP…
This is a photo of an F15 with recoil starter…

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Most seeds per square yard wins! 🙂

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The best thing I’ve found is, if it looks like it still has the original engine take the starting pulley off and a date will be found stamped on the flywheel.

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Here’s another one, shown by Roy Watts at the Game Fair, Bath & West Showground, Somerset in 2012…

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Wow, Joe, I’ve seen the 55 model on their price lists but no pictures until now, thanks for posting…

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It’s official – no more Strawberries and Steam Rally at Lotmead Farm, Swindon.

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I’m thinking about it, probably bringing sprayers….

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ITV Westcountry had quite a bit on it this evening, vehicles being pulled onto the site…..

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..as was mine, Charlie, I was a bit surprised that people at Honiton Hill rally were quoting from the magazine as I hadn’t got mine by the time we left on Friday….
Looking forward to those adverts, Ivan, thanks…

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It should be with you, Pete….

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Indeed, Will Haggle has and I have some literature including a manual, I’ll share it with you….

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Now it looks like I’ve found the patent for that MM spray lance….
https://www.lens.org/lens/patent/GB_513013_A

513,013. Valve-actuating mechanism ; nozzles. MARVEN B., and MACPHERSON, A. J. March 29, 1938, No. 9618. [Classes 69 (iii) and 135] A hand-controlled nozzle of the kind in which a spring closed valve is unseated by a rod 15 moved axially by a hand lever 20 pivoted to the forward end of the nozzle body, is provided with a link 23 pivoted at 24 to the lever 20 and bearing on the rod 15, guided substantially along the axis thereof by a pin 21 working in a siot 22, the pivot 19 of the lever being in the line of the axis of the rod. The link 23 is normally at an angle to the rod 15 and so arranged that the toggle system constituted by the link and lever may be brought towards but not beyond the dead centre. An additional spring 25 may be provided bearing against the lever 20.

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I found this advert on the Ministry of Agriculture Yearbook 1919….

Here’s a link to the page…
https://archive.org/stream/journalofministr2810grea/journalofministr2810grea#page/n8/mode/1up

…and a link to the parent site…

https://whotalking.com/flickr/ministry+of+agriculture

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