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The tractor is one of the amazing ones where the engine is effectively the frame of the vehicle. Each end of the engine is attached to one of the axles. Pure simplicity and great to service as everything is exposed. |
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My grandfather had a bunch of rusty old tractors abandoned on his farm, many of them old enough to have a hand crank sticking out the front. I'm not sure how old that would make them; I imagine tractors didn't get electric starters until well after cars did. Most of these tractors appear to have been modified to have an electric starter, though; they also have car battery mounted in front of the steering wheel. Or was there a time when tractors had starters but also had hand cranks as a backup should the battery or starter fail? He would have started farming there in the 1940s, but of course the tractors could have been bought secondhand.
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From personal experience dating from the 1960s, Farmall tractors had both crank and electric starters. Also from personal experience, MG cars and Triumph cars from the same period had electric starters plus provisions for crank starting.
ETA: See this photo of a TR3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triump...lifted_TR3.JPG The round hole in the center of the grill is so a crank can be inserted if needed. |
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Interesting. My 1950's Olivers are battery start, with no sign of a crank or any place to put one.
-- I used to know someone who would have been able to answer this question in great detail; but unfortunately he's no longer with us. |
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