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On Sun, 1 May 2016 04:47:36 -0700 (PDT), Weatherlawyer
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Any idea how much horse power that old TVO represented?

Well now that we have all set off down to the good old days, batons in
hand, how about soem throughput for the OP?

How much of a game changer was the 5 (or less) horsepower engine when
they started to get a grip on farms?

Apparently the 5-Hp was quite a substantial motor, for its time.
Anyone have any real idea?

Something from the Victorian peasant's Space Age. How the Wright
engine worked:


Small IC engines made a huge difference from the 1900's but especially
after so after WW1 but not in tractor form*.
So when did the Standard Fordson, become commonplace? (The one with
single pedal for clutch and brake. I can remember driving one as a kid
in the 50s - no elfin safety in those days) It had metal wheels with the
lugs for grip. Tyres were an optional extra
Firms such as Lister and
Stuart Turner made 1000's that powered pumps, generators,sawbenches,
milking machines and all sorts of other machinery a situation that was
still common well into the 1960's until the majority of farms had
access to mains electric under the post WW2 rural electrification
scheme. Some will no doubt still be in use in some really. remote
places .
* There were some home produced makes of two wheeled walk behind
tractors that now days are more associated with the so called third
world , Trusty was one well known make.
http://www.vhgmc.co.uk/survivors/tru...ctor-register/

G.Harman

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bert