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* Their first tractor was produced in '''1903''' with a three cylinder petrol engine. The tractor was designed for all types of farm work and was featured in a 1903 issue of the Hardware Trades Journal as being "designed for all kinds of farm and general estate work, including ploughing,cultivating, reaping, binding, mowing, hop washing, etc and is also capable of being used for stationary work". | * Their first tractor was produced in '''1903''' with a three cylinder petrol engine. The tractor was designed for all types of farm work and was featured in a 1903 issue of the Hardware Trades Journal as being "designed for all kinds of farm and general estate work, including ploughing,cultivating, reaping, binding, mowing, hop washing, etc and is also capable of being used for stationary work". | ||
==Sources of Information== | |||
From 1890 to the Present Day Farm Tractors by Michael Williams published in 2005 by Silverdale Books ISBN 978-1-84509-251-1 | |||
Revision as of 09:21, 15 May 2007
Drake and Fletcher were an engineering company based in Kent, England.
- Their first tractor was produced in 1903 with a three cylinder petrol engine. The tractor was designed for all types of farm work and was featured in a 1903 issue of the Hardware Trades Journal as being "designed for all kinds of farm and general estate work, including ploughing,cultivating, reaping, binding, mowing, hop washing, etc and is also capable of being used for stationary work".
Sources of Information
From 1890 to the Present Day Farm Tractors by Michael Williams published in 2005 by Silverdale Books ISBN 978-1-84509-251-1