One Hiding Across the Pond

Bummin around on Tractor House and found this ol girl hanging out over in Germany. Wonder if she was origionally sent to Europe or if shes a transplant. Deffinely a nice clean origional.
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Anybody taking a European vacation ? I'll send my big empty suitcase.

O. K. For you young guys, when did Lend Lease and or the Marshall plan start? That 80 diesel I drove in the U. K. was a 1943 model and it came over in one of those deals. Maybe RAB knows. It probably was shipped to the U. K. and then wound up in Germany.

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What about the Souderburg Haak tractors that ended up in Europe? They didn't go through England.

Well since this is a 41 model and since World War 2 was going on in Europe I doubt if it was shipped to Germany

Lend lease started early in 41, but I dont know if we started shipping farm equipment at that same time or if it was just weapons and armor at the very beginning and the farm equiment and civillian aid came later.

Marshall Plan started in 48 so it would have gone over before that.

Very close, JS. Many 80s ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic in the early years of the war.

I s'pose it depends on what people term as Europe. In those days it was Great Btitain versus the rest of Europe, mainland European countries having, by then, been overrun by Germany (and Italy).

There were not that many diesels made, but I think Norman Bashford used one after the war years. I do remember it being said to the effect that the diesel was 'gutless' compared to the TVO model. Whether that is the same one that now resides at Swindon (Alan Ward), I don't know.

Somehow, I doubt that (m)any came over on pneumatics during the war years. This one has Oliver rear wheel centres, but looks like cut-off steels on the front. Rear tyres would have been 12 x 28 generally - not like this one!

My 90 came over in 1948 and was delivered with rubber all round, plus rear steels. By the early 1950s, we had one Fordson standard on rubber and (presumably) an older one on steel.

A lot of 80s ended up as scrap due to valves falling into the cylinder and ruining the engine, I believe. This one might need casting numbers checking out to be sure the year was 1943 and not had an engine transplant, although it is more likely the wheels have been changed.

I have several 80s and also know where another one, that we had on the farm in the 1950s, resides.

The 80s were a more versatile tractor than the 90, because of the farm sizes of the day, but my 90 is my favourite Ollie.