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Thought they were, those are some tough old trucks in my opinion.  Might have to make that picture you posted Drew my new background, haha.

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This weekend a new rally was started near Ludlow in Shropshire.  It was called "Old Timers" staged because the sponsors had got fed up with modern rallies being stuffed full of classic tractors.  So they invited people along with tractors that were basically pre 1940.  There was a handsome selction of golden oldies uncluttered with the modern stuff.  Maybe 150 tractors in all.  There were UK, USA and European oldies on show.  Here are some photos of British "Old Timers"

John
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John That looks like an Interesting show. I'm afraid the classics do nothing for me. Probably my age. What did you and Malcolm take? I see there was a Pacemaker there. Alan

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Alan,

Malcolm took his Wallis K and I took my red Pacemaker - the one in the photos.

The weather was also very kind - warm and literally only one or two occasional spots of the wet stuff.  The ground was dry too despite recent rains.

I don't know if they took enough at the gate to do another next year - it would be a pity if it doesn't carry on.  There was an excellent restaurant just half a mile from the site tho' we stayed in a Holiday Inn just across the road from it.  It was worth the arduous cross country trip just to be able to have a damned good steak there!!!  Pulling up and over the Welsh mountains to get there I cleared some coke out of the Land Rover engine!!

John

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Here is some of the US built tractors at The Old Timer event.

Malcolm.
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Here are the photo's of the Wallis and M-H representation at the show.

Malcolm.
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Just as magnificent as the wonderful display of Old Timers was this display of cast iron machinery manufacturers plates - all British.  This truly stunning display was put out by a memeber of our cast Iron Seat Society CISS).  The gent that owned it sais it was half of his collection!!!
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This is an example of one of the manufacturers plates.  It is from my wife's home town of Bala.  In the 1800s and early 1900s there were many, many small implement and equipment manufacturers like these around the UK and Ireland

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We better turn the feller who owns that F20 to the correct color of red, haha. Think thats the 1st time Ive seen a wide front Farmall F20. All the ones that Ive seen here in the states are narrow fronts or have the single front wheel.

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Dakota,

I am very pleased to see your taking notice of all the detail on the various makes and models of UK tractors recently posted on this thread.

To answer your post above with a little bit more detail for you, the rowcrop tractor market in the UK was much different to what you are familiar with in the USA,. Your rowcrop use was mainly corn (maize as we call it) where as here in England our rowcrop work was potatoes, sugar beet and many different vegetables, all these were grown on much narrower rows than your corn of the same period. So most of the rowcrop tractors by all manufacturers at that time in England favoured adjustable wide axle fronts, the other option often seen was single front wheel.

The tractor you pointed out is a very popular in it's time I-H F14, denoted by the rising steering shaft, it's smaller brother the F12 had the steering shaft running parallel with the hood (bonnet). Both models were very popular here with the wide adjustable front axle you  see in the photo, the same models was available in single front wheel, the standard fixed axle models were popular here known as the W12 and W14.
All these various Farmall models were well suited to the small English farm of the time, with much smaller fields than you are familiar with.

One of my dad's friend's had an F12 which was a good work horse, but compared to a M-H 12-20 dad always said the F12 known as the "Flee" would not pull the skin off a rice pudding with it's 12HP.

There was not too many F20's found there way to England, more have travelled across from your side of the pond in the more recent "collecting era", the same applies to the earlier Farmall Regular's.

Attached is a photo of the standard agricultural model W14 taken at the same event, a very different tractor to the rowcrop version F14.

Hope a bit of British rowcrop tractor history is of interest to you.

Malcolm.

 

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