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unusual facts about Tractors



Al-Ghazi Tractors

The Al-Ghazi Tractors Limited (AGTL), was incorporated in 1983, its plant located in Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab, Pakistan.

Allgäu

Fendt tractors, developed and produced in Marktoberdorf are one of the most famous products of the region.

ArmaTrac

The tractors use ZF and Carraro transmissions built under license by them in Turkey.

Artillery tractor

The Royal Artillery however, persisted with specialist artillery tractors (known as Field Artillery Tractors or 'FAT's) such as the Morris "Quad" and AEC Matador throughout World War II, rather than adopt a general purpose vehicle.

Backhoe loader

In recent years, small compact tractors from manufacturers such as Kubota have become very popular with private homeowners.

Case STX Steiger

The tractors are built in Case IH's plant in Fargo, North Dakota, where already 50,000 units of this line were built.

Die-cast toy

1:32 scale - Intermediate size, most common for model tractors and other agricultural vehicles; Britains has used this scale for decades, and it is also used by Ertl and Siku.

Earl Caddock

He ran a Ford agency selling cars, tractors and heavy machinery to farmers in Walnut, Iowa.

Elkhart County 4-H Fair

On Thursday, the Tractor pulls compete all day long featuring different classes of tractors including antique tractors and Lucas Oil PPL Tractors.

Energy Manufacturing Co. Inc

Jerry Pasker moved to South Cedar Street in Monticello, Iowa and was introduced to Harold Sovern, who sold John Deere tractors and equipment.

Fahr

SAME Deutz-Fahr (SDF), an Italian-based manufacturer of tractors, combine harvesters, other agricultural machines, engines and equipment

Fordson tractor

Under this arrangement, forty-two tractors were loaned to such universities as Cornell, Idaho, Michigan, Maryland and Prairie View State Normal in Texas.

Fuel dyes

In the United Kingdom, "red diesel" is dyed gas oil for registered agricultural or construction vehicles such as tractors, excavators, cranes and some other non-road applications such as boats.

GoldStar

The GoldStar tractors actually began in 1975, as a division of Hyundai, in cooperation with Yanmar of Japan.

Hanstead Stud

The women bred livestock (Aberdeen Angus and Jersey cattle) and horses, including Suffolk Punches (large draught horses, still used to work the land, until tractors became widespread) and Thoroughbreds (a breed used for fox hunting as well as flat racing and steeplechases).

Intercontinental Manufacturing Company

The tractors were to be made of components from various sources, including Nateco (National Equipment Company of Texas) tractor base, a Continental Motors Company engine, and a Timken Company transaxle assembly.

Iseki

Its tractors have been sold worldwide under various brands: AGCO, Bolens, Challenger, Massey Ferguson and White.

Jardin d'Acclimatation railway

In 1945, the shortage of gasoline caused the replacement of the gasoline locomotives with battery tractors, which probably came from the Universal Exhibition of 1937, with their wheels with tires running outside the rails.

Jiangling

Jiangling Tractors, a division of Jiangling Motor Company, produces tractors

Komsomolets armored tractor

In the spring and summer of 1943, Romania refurbished 34 captured T-20 armored tractors, officially known as "Șenileta Ford rusesc de captură" (captured Soviet Ford small armoured vehicle) at Rogifer Factory (formerly known as Malaxa).

Kurganmashzavod

In 1954 the manufacture of military equipment was started with the ATS and ATS-59 artillery tractors, which were used for field work and reclaiming of oilfield in Tyumen region, in addition to many produced for export.

Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club

On site there is an extensive collection of Mobile Steam, Stationary Steam Engines, Stationary IC Engines, Diesel engines, Diesel Generator sets, Tractors and other mobile machinery.

Melstedgård

The southern outhouse houses old farm machinery as well as three old tractors, one of them a 1948 John Deere sent from the United States under the post-war Marshall Plan.

Oliver Heritage Magazine

Additionally, Schaefer has provided her expertise in other tractor-related books including: A Guide to Hart-Parr, Oliver and White Farm Tractors 1901-1996 by Larry Gay, Oliver Farm Tractors by T. Herbert Morrell, Oliver Photographic History by April Halberstadt and Ultimate American Farm Tractor Data Book Nebraska Test Tractors 1920-1960 by Lorry Dunning.

Operation Alpha Centauri

In the weeks before the first assault, the 8 G5s were flown in darkness from Rundu to Mavinga (15°47'36 S 20°21'49 E) over 2 nights by South African Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, whilst the remainder of the battery including the gun-tractors drove the distance.

Pedrail wheel

largely at Winston Churchill's urging, agreed to sponsor experiments and tests of armoured tractors as a type of "land ship".

Perrin Air Force Base

Perrin became a storage facility for aircraft such as the AT-6 Texan trainer, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, and other equipment, such as tractors and bulldozers.

Peugeot 402

Peugeot had been making diesel engines in the north, at their Lille engine plant, since 1928, for use in boats, railcars and agricultural tractors.

René Barrientos

He cooperated with Frederick Pittera, an American inventor and manufacturer of small farm tractors (the chairman of The Tiger Tractor Corp., Keyser, West Virginia, which in 1962 was nominated by the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce for the Presidential 'E' Award for Exports, was endeavoring to introduce a new cooperative farming concept to eliminate world famine with his U.S.-patented small farm tractor equipment.

Robert Serf

Georges Didier established a small automobile business at Colombey-les-Belles, not far from Toul, concentrating on Ford cars and Fordson tractors.

SAME Deutz-Fahr

It builds tractors under the SAME (Società Accomandita Motori Endotermici), Lamborghini, Hürlimann and Deutz-Fahr brands, and combines under the Deutz-Fahr and Đuro Đaković brands.

Sevel Argentina

As part of the rationalization effort, production of passenger vehicles was to take place in Fiat's large El Palomar plant, while commercials, tractors, vans, and heavy vehicles were to be built in Fiat's factory in Ferreyra, Córdoba province.

Skid cone

Skid cones are most popularly used when skidding single logs behind ATVs or light tractors, particularly when a single operator is too occupied with driving to keep a continuous watch behind.

Steam tractor

Certain steam tractors were better suited for ploughing than others, with the large Minneapolis Threshing machine Co., J.I. Case, Reeves & Co and Advance-Rumely engines being prime examples.

Swaraj Mazda

Established in 1983, Swaraj Mazda Limited, an Chandigarh, India based automobile company, is owned by the Sumitomo Corporation of Japan and Punjab Tractors Limited of India, with a technical collaboration with Isuzu and Mazda of Japan.

T-1 tractor

The Romanian General Staff ordered the construction of 1000 tractors between 1944 and 1945 at the Ford truck plant in Bucharest.

Thomas Green Fessenden

At this time, he formed the acquaintance of Benjamin Douglas Perkins, patentee of the metallic tractors (see Elisha Perkins) which Fessenden advertised in a poem in Hudibrastic verse.

Tong Yang Moolsan

They have built tractors for other companies and been sold under various brands, including: Same and Nibbi of Italy; Tong Yang; TYM; Mahindra of India sold in USA since 1999.

Ursus Factory

Gierek had invested nearly 1 billion dollars into a project of developing a modern Massey Ferguson model of tractor at Ursus, however due to licensing problems, these tractors could not be sold in the West, and could not be sold in the East because they were too expensive.

Vostok traverse

Using two bright red painted 1943 World War II M29 Weasel tracked vehicles and two 1950 D4 Caterpillar Inc. tractors the 6-man expedition left Wilkes Base on the coast for the Russian Vostok Station deep in the Antarctic interior.


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