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Wes Verbal

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Anyone know much about the "lanz Bulldog" tractors? I think they were built in Germany ?
Is there any in the U.S. ? Imported or not?
 
I don't know much about them, but there is at least 1 in my area of Ohio. Saw the guy demonstrate starting it with a blank shell cartridge.
 
If it was started with a cartrige it would be a British built Field Marshall tractor. The German built Lanz Bulldog tractors started with a blowlamp as they are hot bulb starting tractors. MJ
 
The Field Marshall. I forgot all about that name ! That's got to be what it was then.
Same place may have a Lanz too ? Been a long time ago I was there. They have ALOT of "odd balls" in the collection, at least for our area.
 
Several different models over the years, all hot bulb or semi-diesel, single cylinder horizontal engines. I can't recall if they were 2 or 4 stroke. The Field Marshalls were two-stroke and they would run backwards. Unfortunately, they wouldn't pump oil when they ran backwards, so it was to be avoided. HSCS built some like them in Hungary, also.
 
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Lanz Bulldog

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Two HSCS tractors

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KL Bulldog made in Australia to Lanz design.

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Smaller Lanz in a show at Meddo, Holland.

Lanz wer taken over by John Deere and now build certain models for the world market
 
Lanz was German made over grown( waaaay overgrown compared to Cub Cadet) simple garden tractor-- one cylinder, 2 stroke with a blower- think of a Detroit single cylinder linear flow. Field Marshall was a British company that started with the Lanz engine under license and did a few modifications for English market- the 'plow winch' instead of direct pull of 'plough'. Design time meant the one cylinder wasn't really unusual- think of early steam tractors and the early McCormick single cylinder gas/distillates. Good design for use in a transition from horse equipment, blacksmith and steam railroad technical support level- keep it simple, build it heavy to last awhile. Sort of like a Harley of the tractor world- Teasing Alert! (Harley and JD two pops have a lot in common also) RN
 
(quoted from post at 06:43:37 06/26/15) Anyone know much about the "lanz Bulldog" tractors? I think they were built in Germany ?
Is there any in the U.S. ? Imported or not?
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Lanz had a manufacturing plant in Spain - to get around imported goods ban imposed by the Spanish Dictator General Franco.

After JD bought Lanz in Germany they continued to build the single cylinder Bulldog models for several years. Painted green & yellow with JD-Lanz badges. Limited numbers built and are very expensive to-day.



This is the last version under JD ownership

Below are a selection of the Spanish built Lanz







 
The KL on that tractor stands for Kelly & Lewis.

They were a "general engineering" firm that produced gear from rail stock to pumps and engines.

We have a VEB stationary diesel engine (5 hp water cooled). A neat engine that has been pumping water since about 1955. The only one I've ever seen. No information from a couple of old engine sources here (Oz) and there seems to be nothing about them on the net.

I've wondered if it was a design produced under licence as it has some metric threads and metric threading gear would have been rare here in that vintage.
 
I have 2 Field Marshalls in Kansas. The Series 2 runs ccw the series 3 run cw .IF I am not mistaken the series 2&3 have the same oil pump. This is a fun tractor to show.

Jim
 
We saw these LANZ tractors at show in Forest City, IA. It was 2 or 3 years ago.

They were quite small. I think that's why I snapped a pic... because I usually prefer rusty stuff.

I know nothing about them except that the paper tag on the green one said, "Made in Germany".

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Re K & L VEB diesel

I forgot to add one very distinctive feature,

Cold start aid is a pad that slides into the air intake. To be soaked in a mixture of half diesel and half petrol.

Rattles a bit on startup but has done this since 1955.

Anyone else met a system like on anything else?
 
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