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db4600

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Majorman s glimpse at the early Lanz in Tuesday s Truck piqued my interest and with the past discussion about an orphaned steel wheel I thought this fitting. It s interesting to find a picture of a beast like this if it is truly a Lanz. I doubt it was agriculture related as most Lanz photo history depict them as smaller units. The sheer size is impressive. Akin to John Deere doing a one-off that rivaled early prairie tractor like a TC 60-95.
 
There is one of those tractors in a museum in Iceland, 4 cylinder gasoline engine about 80 HP, it had a large rotary hoe on back, early 1920s
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I could be wrong about the Lanz, this is the one I was thinking of but the
steering is wrong.


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I will try and contact my friend who took us to see those tractors but may not
have a lot of luck as he has just moved house and has limited internet at the
moment.
 
I was searching the web for an early Lanz like you describe and couldnt find what I had pictured in my head. The early Lanz were a simple contraption utilizing the gas engine of that time and likely werent very prolific. Over here the practices were similar by utilizing friction drive of the flywheel. The York tractor comes to mind in comparison to the early Lanz.
 
Here are some more photographs of the Lanz in Iceland. Sorry will leave you to translate the Icelandic. Note Aluminium crankcase, World War I German aircraft technology maybe? Later the Lanz Bulldog tractors were single cylinder semi-diesels.
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This last photograph shows the tractor in Iceland and the photograph is on the wall in the museum
 
My father saw these Fowler Rototiller machines demonstrated in NZ in the 1930s. One of the demonstrations was on my grandfathers farm near Methven and it was said that the ground was too soft walk on afterwards. Grew the best Californian thistles 20 years later. The real problem was that it brought up the underlying river boulders requiring the same stone clearance effort that had been required when the farm was first cultivated 30 years earlier. Not a success and have no idea what happen to the machine afterwards, maybe shipped back to the UK
 
Here is a photograph of the Museum building in Hvanneyri, Iceland. It was originally the dairy building at the Agricultural College in Hvanneyri and can be seen in the early photograph of the Lanz tractor in the 1920s
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