Loddon Vaporiser was a replacement and more efficient than the original one fitted by Ford.
It helped reduce fuel usage and gave a quicker warm-up. The Major was a petrol/kerosene, starting on petrol and then the petrol was turned off when the tractor warmed up and the kerosene turned on. The kerosene from the carburettor passed through the vaporiser which was heated by the exhaust gasses, where it was heated and vaporised before it was drawn into the cylinders. If you look closely at the picture, the cover is gone and you can see the series of fins over which the kerosene passed.
If the vaporiser was not hot, then kerosene would not be properly burnt and end up diluting the oil.
The manifold and vaporiser will glow red hot at night, I run a later 1953 Petrol/kerosene Major and when ploughing, at night, there is a glow from the manifold and exhaust pipe and about a four inch blue flame from the top of the exhaust.
Loddon Engineering was a blacksmith and engineering company who made a variety of agricultural items in a little village just outside Norwich.
The Kerosene used over here was called TVO or Tractor Vaporising Oil, cheaper and perhaps not as highly refined as kerosene.
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