Caterpillar Twenty and Ransomes Twin Plough
Forestry Commission copyright images of Forest Research photographs courtesy of Glenn Brearley, Roslin. Nil Ref No.
One of a series of seven images taken on the same day of a Caterpillar Twenty tractor pulling two types of plough and a sub soiler. Best information on the back of the images indicates that this was at Allerston Forest in Feb 1930 (Note that Wykeham Forest may be the same location).
Dramatic photograph of a Caterpillar Twenty cresting a small slope in an otherwise flat heather and grass heath in north Yorkshire pulling in this case a Ransomes Twin Plough (Duotrac?). This is likely to have been some type of demonstration or trial of cultivation machinery – hence the collar and tie worn by the tractor driver.
Note the trailing rope from near the driver to behind the tractor to trip the lifting mechanism of the plough.
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Groups: Forest Research, Forestry in Action, Tractors Ploughs and Drainage Machines