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Bill Here in Australia, most of the Cs and Ls were last used for serious farming in the 1950s. By the 1960s diesels of various sorts replaced all gas, kero, distilate etc tractors. I have a few living relatives who farmed with Cs Ls and LAs. I still have my Dad's C. I drove it until he stopped farming in about 1950. He died in 1953 and it went to one of his cousins. I bought it from the cousin in about 1975 and it has been doing some light work on our 3000 acre wheat farm ever since. Dad and one of my Uncles farmed 1000 acres with the C and a L. The tractors ran round the clock for years, especially during ploughing and sowing. Wheat sowing is in the early winter here and it was tough work driving the C on a cold winters night and having to stop every hour to carry bags of seed wheat from the truck to the machine sowing the wheat (which we called a combine - it combined cultivation, seed and fertiliser placement) Now we just flick a lever on an auger to fill an air seeder box and go for hours, sitting in an air conditioned cab. Bob
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