kcm.MN
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- NW Minnesota
The Ivel tractor
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Majorman
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- Location
- Scarning, Norfolk, England
Built by Dan Albone at the beginning of the 20th century around 1903. Dan had a company
in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire making bicycles and was a renowned racing cyclist. The
company was set up near the Ivel River in the Ivel Works.
The tractor was fairly successful at the time with Dan doing a lot of demonstrations. he
used to move into a field of wheat with the tractor and binder, cut the field, cart the
sheaves with the tractor and cart, thresh the grain with a drum (thresher) powered by the
tractor's belt pulley, grind flour with the tractor driving the mill then put it on the
plough and plough the stubble. At the end of the day onlookers were served bread rolls
from the wheat they had watched being harvested.
The company relied too much on Dan Albone and when he died at the age of 46 there was no-
one involved with the drive to keep it running and developing the tractor. There are only
about three tractors left in existance I believe. One is in the Science Museum in London.
in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire making bicycles and was a renowned racing cyclist. The
company was set up near the Ivel River in the Ivel Works.
The tractor was fairly successful at the time with Dan doing a lot of demonstrations. he
used to move into a field of wheat with the tractor and binder, cut the field, cart the
sheaves with the tractor and cart, thresh the grain with a drum (thresher) powered by the
tractor's belt pulley, grind flour with the tractor driving the mill then put it on the
plough and plough the stubble. At the end of the day onlookers were served bread rolls
from the wheat they had watched being harvested.
The company relied too much on Dan Albone and when he died at the age of 46 there was no-
one involved with the drive to keep it running and developing the tractor. There are only
about three tractors left in existance I believe. One is in the Science Museum in London.
Steve@Advance
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Those old tractors look crude and have some strange engineering going on, but think about what it took to build something like that back then!
No major engine mfgs to call on, start from scratch and design, develop, build and test an engine and drive train! And do it with minimal previous proven engineering standards to go by, crude machining abilities, and very limited availability of alloyed metals to use.
If this man did all that on his own, he would have been a true genius!
No major engine mfgs to call on, start from scratch and design, develop, build and test an engine and drive train! And do it with minimal previous proven engineering standards to go by, crude machining abilities, and very limited availability of alloyed metals to use.
If this man did all that on his own, he would have been a true genius!
rlp in Co.
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It's even got a spring suspension in the
front so it doesn't ride so rough!
front so it doesn't ride so rough!
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