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General => Chatter => Topic started by: Tony on March 10, 2014, 08:35:39 PM

Title: Unusual vehicle
Post by: Tony on March 10, 2014, 08:35:39 PM

Petrol/paraffin apparently

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/David-Brown-Trackmaster-crawler-Totally-original-barn-find-/221389564446

Amazing bit of kit :)  Chug you should get it for your field!

Title: Re: Unusual vehicle
Post by: greasemonkey on March 10, 2014, 08:50:20 PM

Marvellous piece of kit, in their day. Can't quite understand why they made it petrol/paraffin, maybe it was for a specific market, or purely to keep the price down.
If someone needed something like that, then about the only other option was a Caterpillar, which would have been considerably more expensive.
I'm guessing that bigger tractors sealed their demise. Plenty of pulling power, with far less damage to the ground.
She looks a lovely little example. She'll make a few quid.

Title: Re: Unusual vehicle
Post by: nigelb on March 10, 2014, 09:39:24 PM

I see it's the "two seater" sports model ;D

Title: Re: Unusual vehicle
Post by: Dickjotec on March 11, 2014, 08:59:22 AM

Lots of tractors were parafin or TVO, tractor vaporising oil, start on petrol then turn over to TVO turning back at the end of the day. As a youth I remember having to hand start said beasts, hard work often  with a kick at the end