The Great Henham Steam Rally

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TANKS!

You're welcome!

(ht to Groucho Marx)

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Field Marshalls lined up for the slow race. Last across the line wins.



The finish.

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''Monty'' with drum and buncher hitched up for a circuit of the show ring.



Literally moving under her own steam.



A well-packed ring.

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Great Stuff Monte !

Comments from the peanut gallery...
The Titans have the original IHC logo, if you see anything International Harvester with that logo it is old, pre-1920. I have plow with that logo on it.

Brit tractors seem to have more attention to aesthetics than American tractors.

Were their any Empire Tractors? I would think the British Isles would be a hotbed for them since they were made from extra Willy's jeep parts.

Were there any BSA Bantam bikes there ?
The reason I ask is that the origin of the Bantams are one of the funniest war reparations I've ever read. After WWII the Allies took the plans of the DKW (German Auto Union) 125 bike as reparations. From these plans came copies in the form of the Harley Hummer and BSA Bantam, the Soviets also had their version. I only know this because I have a Harley Hummer.

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Great Stuff Monte !

Comments from the peanut gallery...
The Titans have the original IHC logo, if you see anything International Harvester with that logo it is old, pre-1920. I have plow with that logo on it.

Brit tractors seem to have more attention to aesthetics than American tractors.

Were their any Empire Tractors? I would think the British Isles would be a hotbed for them since they were made from extra Willy's jeep parts.

Were there any BSA Bantam bikes there ?
The reason I ask is that the origin of the Bantams are one of the funniest war reparations I've ever read. After WWII the Allies took the plans of the DKW (German Auto Union) 125 bike as reparations. From these plans came copies in the form of the Harley Hummer and BSA Bantam, the Soviets also had their version. I only know this because I have a Harley Hummer.

Were a few Massey Fergusson International Harvesters from the 70's.
Don't know about Empires, what do they look like?

Several Bantams and Tiger Cubs. Were more cars and bikes there today but I was too busy threshing and tidying up to take many pics.

Not been back long so haven't had time to shower yet. My eyes are full of dust and chaff. We've had very little rain recently (less than 20% average last month) so the site was dusty AF.

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I think that might be a Bantam on the far end of the row.

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I could make such a nice food truck out of the stream bus.

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Brit tractors seem to have more attention to aesthetics than American tractors.

Probably half the tractors there were American.
Lots of Fordsons and Fords. Lots of Massey Fergusons. Lots of old John Deeres.

Do you not have the TE20 Fergusons (little grey Fergies) in the States?
They were built before the Massey - Ferguson merger (1954) turned a Canadian and a British manufacturer into an American owned company with headquarters in Georgia.
The little grey is the equivalent of the Mini over here, every farm has had one at some point.

You can still pick a decent condition 70-year-old one up for a couple of grand.

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Brit tractors seem to have more attention to aesthetics than American tractors.

Probably half the tractors there were American.
Lots of Fordsons and Fords. Lots of Massey Fergusons. Lots of old John Deeres.

Do you not have the TE20 Fergusons (little grey Fergies) in the States?
They were built before the Massey - Ferguson merger (1954) turned a Canadian and a British manufacturer into an American owned company with headquarters in Georgia.
The little grey is the equivalent of the Mini over here, every farm has had one at some point.

You can still pick a decent condition 70-year-old one up for a couple of grand.

That was just before they combined with Massey.

An Empire tractor looks like a jeep without a body