Past Present and in Between in Pictures (Part 1)

cattle_wagon_man · 23 January 2014 20:37

W. Smith from Barry , near Carnoustie , Angus , owned this Leyland Comet in the early 1960s. The 2 deck livestock body was transferred from an earlier Leyland (mouth organ` ) Comet.

I was asked to make models of the livestock bodies for both Leylands , and they were exhibited at Truckfest Scotland .

Cheers , cattle wagon man.

cattle_wagon_man · 23 January 2014 20:43

Here is the Corgi chassis , but fitted with a Kingfisher Leyland L.A.D. white metal cab.
Sorry the photograph colour is bright , - it has been scanned from a larger photo, and Ive misjudged the colour contrast` .

Cheers , cattle wagon man.

retired_old_fart · 24 January 2014 00:43

tractordriver:

oiltreader:

Retired Old ■■■■:
Oily and tractordriver,
Do you still have to swing the ■■■■ things by the handle for two hours or have you worked out how to start them properly?

Hi ROF, there’s no doubt that tractordriver knows a lot more about it than I do, two tanks, one petrol, main one paraffin, half turn the crank to get max compression with handle at 12 o’clock, petrol feed on with a wee bit o’ priming, run until hot enough for firing the paraffin, not that difficult with the right knack and a magneto free of damp. A German POW on the farm I frequented would if the weather was at all humid or in the wintertime take the mag off at end of day and set it by the stove until morning, half a crank would fire the machine up.
probably set myself up to get put in place by tractordriver
Oily

No mate bang on.
My old fordson starts usually on 4 or 5 quater swings,
Cant but TVO any more as the air lines buy it all- - yes some jets run on it
I now use central heating oil (28 sec) runs like a charm on it

If you mix petrol with TVO at about 25-to-one it will run even better. You chaps deserve a medal for firing up a Standard Fordson that quickly. I remember the farmer next door used to gather family, friends and neighbours together when he wanted to start his. They would all take a turn at swinging, with many variations on choke, throttle opening, plug-warming, etc. until the thing eventually fired up. She was then left running all day until he had finished for the night because it was certain to refuse to start when hot.
There wasn’t much work for the tractor on the old boy’s small dairy farm. It was in use for a week or so during hay making, when a buckrake would be mounted on the front to bring the hay to the Massey Harris stationary baler, then a converted horse rake was dragged around to gather up the “bits”. Mowing was carried out by the farmer’s horse-drawn finger-bar mower and turning was carried out by female family members, using pitch forks and muck forks.
Saviem doesn’t know he’s born, sitting in his air-conditioned & heated foreign power-machine!

As to the airlines- if you look at the labels on the pipelines on airports, they will say, “AVTUR”, Aviation Turbine Fuel. Paraffin to you!

grumpy_old_man · 24 January 2014 09:51

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You’ll have to do two trips mate, you’ll never get em all on.

toshboy · 24 January 2014 09:59

Hi Tractor driver, talking about tvo/petrol starting mixtures reminded me on BRS when we had the mk 5 Seddons early 50s with the perkins p6 --they had a cold start system ----Ki - gas i think which was a container and hand pump with paraffin in it .we used to add petrol as well unofficially .the proceedure was a left hand finger on the heater button another on the starter the other hand pumping the ki gas -foot hard down and keep going until it fired up .very effective never let me down ,as you know we had some nasty winters those days --toshboy

oiltreader · 24 January 2014 16:25

Thanks to cattle wagon man for the pics and others for input and info

a few from the A9 Easter Ross seaboard.
Oily

tractordriver · 24 January 2014 23:08

toshboy:
Hi Tractor driver, talking about tvo/petrol starting mixtures reminded me on BRS when we had the mk 5 Seddons early 50s with the perkins p6 --they had a cold start system ----Ki - gas i think which was a container and hand pump with paraffin in it .we used to add petrol as well unofficially .the proceedure was a left hand finger on the heater button another on the starter the other hand pumping the ki gas -foot hard down and keep going until it fired up .very effective never let me down ,as you know we had some nasty winters those days --toshboy

Yes ki gas - a lot of tractors has the same thing. messy but did the job

tractordriver · 24 January 2014 23:12

If you mix petrol with TVO at about 25-to-one it will run even better. You chaps deserve a medal for firing up a Standard Fordson that quickly. I remember the farmer next door used to gather family, friends and neighbours together when he wanted to start his. They would all take a turn at swinging, with many variations on choke, throttle opening, plug-warming, etc. until the thing eventually fired up. She was then left running all day until he had finished for the night because it was certain to refuse to start when hot.
There wasn’t much work for the tractor on the old boy’s small dairy farm. It was in use for a week or so during hay making, when a buckrake would be mounted on the front to bring the hay to the Massey Harris stationary baler, then a converted horse rake was dragged around to gather up the “bits”. Mowing was carried out by the farmer’s horse-drawn finger-bar mower and turning was carried out by female family members, using pitch forks and muck forks.
Saviem doesn’t know he’s born, sitting in his air-conditioned & heated foreign power-machine!

As to the airlines- if you look at the labels on the pipelines on airports, they will say, “AVTUR”, Aviation Turbine Fuel. Paraffin to you!
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No need to add petrol runs like clockwork without.
Keep them in good nick and the mag dry they will always start.
They were designed to start once a day and run all day.
stop my fordson hot - forget it wont start again untill its cooled off