Big boys toys !! (Newby Hall Yorkshire Vintage Machinery Show)
Mint and Boxed Field Marshall

Fowler Challenger 1 with two stroke twin engine

Great pictures and thanks for sharing them with us.
The Challenger 1 is a rare machine, having a twin cylinder version of the Field Marshall 2 stroke engine (4.2 litres in single cylinder form, so the twin was 8.4 litres ?). The engine was a commercial failure, consuming a lot of oil and very unreliable, but nevertheless an interesting machine.

Hi John,
Just found these brilliant photos of these outstanding tractors.I apreciate the hard work and time someone put into turning them out.Thanks for posting SX650.
On the engines though, I beleive the Field Marshall has a bore and stroke of 6.5 and 9 in. Thats 298.6 cu. in. and I just worked out that's 4.89 litres.
The Fowler has a Marshall 2 cyl. vertical engine bore and stroke 5.25 and 6 in. x 2 Thats 259.6 cu in. and if my maths is right that's 4.25 litres.
The Marshall develops 40 h.p. at 750r.p.m. The Fowler 50 h.p. at 1,250 r.p.m.

Fred

Great photos of the Dinky toy Craig I missed it it was wrapped up for the night when i got round to there. Have you got the MH as well (in the back ground) ?

The Challenger 1 was immaculate sure ive posted one from the other side of it in one of the threads.

Dave

(sorry missed it originally)

It's funny was just looking at these very photos yesterday while tidying up my files, this was a very good show even the good lady enjoyed it!

Some more good photos Craig. Would you mind if I put the last one on the Fordson forum?

All my own pics so please feel free to use any of them . As long as you don't sell em for 50p at autojumbles

Seem to have lost the edit button , anyway this was the other line of Fordson Majors-

Craig

You got some good ones there showing how tightly packed the tractors were.

The Ford and Forson club put on a great selection of tractors but I have a grip with them as they cram em in too tight but are prety good at having some info with the tractor.

Then the Ferguson lot have stupid plastic bunting in front So you cant get a decent shot of each tractor. I gave up with the Fergusons and Masseys in the end as climb over to get front and rear photos was too much of a pain. I tried to get every tractor but struggled to get round in time with waiting to get clear shots of some.

Was a good day once the flood waters receded.

A Good selection of very early machines as well.

Dave

You get to plenty of shows Dave , some of the early stuff was really interesting like this transverse engine , but is it really an oldie ?engine looks a bit too modern ?



quite liked the 3 x 3 Glasgow as well.