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Herewith some pics of Johnson's Titan tractor and trailer at Scorton event on Saturday 26th Sept.
I calculated there are 80 wheels and tyres on the trailer !!

Great pictures, what huge machines !!

Nice looking Smith dragline, looks 'ripe for restoration'.

Hi Karl,
You might try Fenland Tractors...Station Yard, Postland, Crowland, Peterborough, PE6 0JT, phone: 01406 330386 Martyn Stanley.
They have quite a lot of spares lying around their yard.

Hi Lee, very interesting description of an area of work I'm totally unfamiliar with and great pictures. Welcome to CMN and thanks a lot for sharing with us.

Great pictures, Stinger, looks like a sizeable hole they've dug there.

Oh, yeah :arrrrgh: :arrrrgh: I have worked on a couple on older machines.....what were they thinking when they thought that one up ????????? :dizzy: :dizzy: Why would you purposely build an engine that is inherently heavy to manually turn over and difficult to start at the same time?? Obviously par...

Hi Jason, I'm not an expert on Vickers by any means. It was built from 1952 to 1961 as the Vickers VR 180 Vigor. Powered by a Rolls Royce 6 cyl diesel (C6 SFL) rated at 210 Hp. Aparantly 889 were built. There is an interesting article about them in the Crawler Tractor Scrapbook Part 2 by Richard H R...

Great set of pictures Dave. I must attend this show another year, it looks there is a lot of interesting machines there ! Roly, I've posted some pics from Casterton under another thread, it was excellent as always. I was surprised how much moisture there was under the surface, the wheels on the trai...

A few more pictures from Casterton, including the 'flypast on sat !
Noel, I'm sorry I missed you on Sat