Alan Rogers (Will-Haggle)

Vermorel made most of the Cooper-Pegler sprayers. Here’s a similar one behind a garden tractor….
https://www.facebook.com/BANBURYSTEAMRALLY/photos/pcb.2731558853792827/2731554210459958/

Thanks for the king words about the Cultivator. Sorry to see that you’re not so well Expeatfarmer, you did do some excellent displays, I particularly remember the one at Newbury.

Here’s a link to CEI or British Standard Cycle thread…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Standard_Cycle

At some point in the Fifties British Industry went American, Whitworth, BSF, BA, CEI and a host of other specialised threads went and all new designs were required to have UNF/UNC. This led to the Mini range and some others having engines with BSF/Whitworth types and chassis fittings, having been designed in 1957, using UNF/UNC threads. Then in…[Read more]

Happy New Year from Val and I! Downloaded the Calendar OK, a great effort from Robert to put it together!

Nice to see you again Sprayerman! The sketch is on You Tube, here’s a link….

Mine arrived today, I hope everybody finds it interesting!

I have a Big 4 manual, I’ll put a link to it. The main difference to the bike engine is the drive side main shaft, it’s tapered for the engine sprocket on the bike but it’s plain on the trusty to attach the Trusty centrifugal clutch.

I’ve put your reques in the Cultivator, Joe, I’ve put some feelers out on Facebook but nothing yet. Having done a search on Google I found a link to Lavington….

A William Cambridge jar

I got one from here, https://www.bilgroup.co.uk/

You don’t need to convince us that it fills a hole in your collection, Geoff, however there’s a higher authority who may have a view! Nice job, by the way….

Wow, what a fascinating article. I had a petrol generator with a wartime JAP 5 on it, it had a Wico mag. with a metal top and screened plug for RF interference protection and a JAP carb. It had been refurbished in Reme workshops.

My brother-in-law planted some spuds in two tubs, as an experiment, he filled one to the top, the other he earthed up a couple of times. I found three old ones in the bottom of my tater bag with 2 – 3″ sprouts so I put them in a tub and earthed up a couple of times, we shall see what appears! Tops are looking good, the taters came from Collins at…[Read more]

My brother-in-law planted some spuds in two tubs, as an experiment, he filled one to the top, the other he earthed up a couple of times. I found three old ones in the bottom of my tater bag with 2 – 3″ sprouts so I put them in a tub and earthed up a couple of times, we shall see what appears!

Dad and I used his merry tiller to bout up the potatoes but we used the basic rotors (finger tines), they are narrow enough and give good traction.

Dad and I used his merry tiller to bout up the potatoes but we used the basic rotors (finger tines), they are marrow enough and give good traction.

Dad and I used his merry tiller to bout up the potatoes but we used the basic rotors, they are marrow enough and give good traction.

3/16″ = 0.1875″ or 4.76 mm