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Please see attached copy of Howard Mini Cross Gapper Sales Leaflet, hope this assists a unusual and interesting machine
regards
Joe Paget

You might like to use the attached view from the original BMB Cultmate brochure to display with your machine and also help identify some of the Cultmate implements which sometimes turn up in the Tractorworld auction
Hope this assists
regards Joe Paget

Interestingly a diesel Ransomes MG40 is for sale on a certain auction site ex France which has the hydraulic ram rear lift
Some good photographs on the listing give the MG chassis number but also the French manufacturers plate on the rear lift attachment.
I think this supports the idea that to get around protective French import duties on imported…[Read more]

Interesting discussion I wonder we do not see more Brinly ploughs although the digger body may not be ideal for a ploughing match.
Attached is the front page of a Brinly brochure showing the plough,the plough seems to have a lot of width adjustment on the cross member and shows a rear depth wheel not shown on the other photographs in this topic

I received my Cultivator today, I think it is a credit to the Club and is developing into a publication which the Club members will find interesting whatever there particular interest is.
The Club is a pretty broad church but the breadth of topics covered is a tribute to the members who contributed and the skill of our Editor Alan Rogers in…[Read more]

Richard,
Please find attached copy of Sales Leaflet for the Mansley Rotary Cultivator manufactured by Gregson & Monk Ltd, Agricultural Machinery Dept, Vulcan Iron Works, Preston.Lancashire.

Two models were available, the 30″ wide model for the MG5 and the wider 36″ model for the MG6 and MG40
30″ model cost £132 and 36″ model £140 delivered to y…[Read more]

You may find it interesting and informative to view the PRESIDENT TRACTOR FORUM

The VHGMC is and always has been a “broad church” of enthusiasts who I have found whatever there particular favourites are also interested in the subject in general.
Many of the lightweight tractor manufacturers in a effort to increase markets produced “industrial” versions David Brown 2D, Garner or Winget to just name a few and close to me Lea…[Read more]

Lovely job you have there, you do not see many of this model Uni-Horse about and looking at dates on literature I have it must be 50 years old !!
AS you have the optional rear wheel weights (original cost £10) you are well set up for ploughing with the 10″ plough or using the cultivator,rotary cultivator or discs.

Uni-Horse seemed to offer a…[Read more]

Resized photographs of transfers plus a couple more showing lift up cultivator frame lifted by pulley on pto with cable over lifting frame on rear of machine

Good machine with what looks like a original drive belt

A old chap (78)in the next village still uses his Ploughmate for his potato growing preferring it to the grey ferguson and ransomes mg he also has.
Just a word of caution a friend of mine had one which his son decided to start up, in gear it pulled him over and then went through the garden…[Read more]

Not sure about cast fronts being painted red ,none of the BMB literature I have shows painted fronts even black and white there is distinct lighter colour to fronts
There would also appear to be various patterns of cast front
At the end of the day as with paint colours it is your machine and a “as found” condition to me just records the life of…[Read more]

Couple of excerts from original brochure to show universal toolbar and plough and range of attachments

Tyre size is 20 x 4
Brockhouse engine is the industrial version of Spryt engine two stroke 1:20 mix,engine was also used in Brockhouse corgi mini motorbike for paratroopers, in bike is kick start in hoemate recoil starter
Interesting attachment would be front cutterbar or trailer with brakes and seat !!

I thought the various machines and tools displayed by VHGMC reflected very well on the Club not only in interest, standard of restoration and original machines but also the range of machinery and information displayed
You would wonder why Ransomes did not promote and develop the industrial side of the MG tractors seeing those machines displayed,…[Read more]