Old Case Tractors in England

Majorman · Jan 3, 2014

I used to work for a company that, in the 1930's sold Case tractors in our part of England. Whilst looking into the companies history these pictures became available to copy and I thought you might like to see them.

The fields are within two miles of where I live and are still recognisable. The picture are publicity shots taken for the company Wright and Walker around 1937.

Larry EC-OH · Jan 3, 2014

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. Hard to believe that they required tractors to have license plates even at that early date.

Straw Boss · Jan 3, 2014

It'd sure be nice to see a close up of that crawler. I wasn't aware Case shipped combines over there too. Can't imagine any of those survived. Thanks for the pictures and history.

Zachary Hoyt · Jan 3, 2014

Is that second tractor in the first picture a crawler or a halftrack or something? I can't see it too well but it looks like maybe it is different.
Zach

MJ in the UK · Jan 3, 2014

Like the Norfolk registration on the second tractor. The Case guru in your part of the world is my friend Sir John White, I stopped with him when I did the ring commentry at the Starting Handle clubs rally at Marsham last August. I am coming to the club dinner next Saturday so hope to see a lot of friends I made at the rally. MJ

MJ in the UK · Jan 3, 2014

Ron Knight of Stamford Lincolnshire has restored one of those pre war Case combines. MJ

JMOR · Jan 3, 2014

(quoted from post at 11:14:03 01/03/14) I used to work for a company that, in the 1930's sold Case tractors in our part of England. Whilst looking into the companies history these pictures became available to copy and I thought you might like to see them.

The fields are within two miles of where I live and are still recognisable. The picture are publicity shots taken for the company Wright and Walker around 1937.

like old pictures. Thanks for posting. That farmer could plow an arrow straight line!

Straw Boss · Jan 3, 2014

Excellent! Any pictures available in the future?

smallercrawler · Jan 3, 2014

At a guess-might be a "Roadless" crawler conversion.

Majorman · Jan 4, 2014

Yes that is a Case-Roadless conversion. Roadless converted quite a number of Case tractors for the National Lifeboat Institution, making them completely waterproof and able to drive underwater as they launched and recovered lifeboats in terrible conditions.

The man I knew in this part of Norfolk was Mr Coe at Grimston who was still working with Case LA's in the 1970's and still has a number I believe.

Repairing drive chains in the middle of a 100 acre field on a cold February day with a gale blowing the soil around is one of my lasting memories of them!

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