Continuing from part one of this recently discovered tractor’s museum in Israel, enter the post for more photos from the venue.
Of course, as with part 1, I welcome any comments you might have regarding the tractors or any other machinary in the photos:
1959 Massey-Ferguson 65 and 1929 Caterpillar Twenty Two.
More crawlers, all Caterpillars: 1953 D4, 1929 and 1954 D2s.
And another one, 1929 Caterpillar Twenty Two.
A somewhat “mini” crawler, 1952 Bristol 25.
1949 Hanomag R 55 ATK.
A nicely restored 1959 Holder A12.
A pre-restored 1960 Massey-Ferguson 65.
Another pre-restored tractor, 1959 Steyr T80.
John Deere 3020.
Yet another Caterpillar Crawler, a 1953 D4.
1961 Steyr 188.
1957 Oliver 550.
As you can see, the sign says “grinding mill”, but I’m not sure this 1932 Deutz Powered machinery isn’t a shredder (?).
Another “mini” crawler, 1953 A.D.N DA22.
1965 David Brown 770 Selectamatic.
1957 Oliver 550.
1958 BMC Nuffield 4/25. Obviously this isn’t its original grill.
More Caterpillar crawlers for your money; 1950 D4.
1959 Holder B12.
1962 Fiat 415 R.
Porsche tractors arrived in Israel much earlier than their cars. This is a 1960 Standard 218.
1963 Massey Ferguson 35.
1948 Farmall Super A.
1957 Same Puledro B 4X4.
1920 McCormick Deering 22-36.
1956 Fiat 221R Frutteto.
1949 Volvo T-22.
I have absolutely no idea what this is, sorry. Obviously they’ve taken away its body and forgot to put up an identity sign, so suggestions from the CC community are welcome.
Steyr 180A, of an unknown year.
1965 David Brown 880 Implematic.
1964 Ford 4000.
1952 Oliver 88.
Another familier sight, this Westwood Gazelle W11 Lawn Tractor has undoubtedly had many lawns under its wheels (and shears).
1946 Farmall M.
Many Steyrs present, this 1948 TUP 180 sports mud wheels.
1960 Holder A21S.
1956 massey harris 30 and 1948 Massey Harris Pony.
1956 Ferguson 28 and 1957 Ferguson 35.
More Fergusons at the back of the museum; 1948 TE20 and 1954 TE-20 P3.
1957 Holder B10A.
Two more Fergusons, 1947 and 1951 TE-20s.
1931 Oliver HG Crawler and 1961 Agria Garden Tractor.
1955 Steyr 180A and 1957 Massey Ferguson 35.
1957 Massey Ferguson 35.
1938 Bristol Crawler and 1948 Steyr TUP 180.
A better photo of the 1948 Steyr TUP 180, this one also wears mud wheels.
Moving towards the limited outside exhibition, one could witness a neglected Magirus Deutz Mercur 150 Fire Truck.
And this 1945 International TD-9 Dozer Crawler.
Last photo is of this British Aveling Barford GFW Road Roller.
Another great collection. You again hit one area of personal experience with that Oliver 550. My father bought one used around maybe 1970 (a 1961 model) which was much more useful to him for mowing large areas and general utility than the 1937 John Deere Model B that he had been using for the previous couple of years. After getting the Oliver life was a lot less like the old Green Acres TV show at Dad’s place. 🙂
Oliver is another company with longtime connections to South Bend, Indiana. The Oliver Chilled Plow Works got started in the 1850s and became hugely successful. The Oliver Mansion is next door to the current Studebaker National Museum and is a fascinating tour.
The Oliver tractor business was acquired in the late 20s when Oliver bought Hart-Parr of Iowa. I don’t believe that any tractors were ever manufactured in South Bend but I’ll bet Jim Grey could tell us, as I believe I recall that his father worked at Oliver in South Bend for quite a few years.
I just noticed something on that Oliver – According to everything I have seen the 550 was introduced in 1958, so they may have the year off by one. The steel horizontal slat grill dates this as pre-1963.
Second, the decals are different from what I recall. There was a 550 Special that was a low-end bare-bones tractor with that style of decal and also a 550 Diesel. A look at some pictures makes me think that this is a 550 Diesel.
The standard 550 used a different side decal and also had an oval indentation in the sides of the hood where the big oval “Oliver” decal went. The typeface for the “550” was different as well.
You hit the jackpot of tractor variety. So many brands I did not know had made tractors, such as Volvo and Porsche, and other brands I’d simply not heard of before, such as Bristol and Holder.
Thank you for giving us these pictures. Many of them really transported me back to my youth when I was around a few people heavily involved with agriculture.
That mystery tractor is an Allis Chalmers Model B. They had distinctive reduction gear design (visible in the picture ) in the rear wheel hubs that served to raise the height of the axle and chassis for mre clearance for crops and rough ground.
Ah, you posted before I finished mine – I guessed wrong!
It could also be a variant of an Allis Chalmers CA.
The body-less small tractor looks similar to a Farmall Cub to me. Steering wheel is on the ‘wrong’ side, tho.
I was thinking it was maybe a smaller Allis-Chalmers, given the color. Tank doesn’t look quite right for a Model B, though.
Love all the crawler/dozers.
I’ve wanted a 50s – 60s John Deere crawler tractor for a long time but it would be purely a toy for me.
Here you go-John Deere 430C. Just in time for Winter!
Good selection, by the way none of those grey Fergys are 40s models unless the wheels and steering brake pedals have been changed, checking the manufacture date on the generators is a simple way to find roughly when they were built. Whats claimed to be a 47 is in fact a diesel from the mid 50s.
Those old Steyrs look familiar to me. In Austria in the 50s, that was just about the only brand one would see, as imports were more expensive.
Good call on the Allis, I only recognized the color and the torque tube drive.
Oliver tractors were all built in Charles City, Iowa at the original Hart-Parr factory. Known for their smooth-running and reliable motors, they were bought out by White Motors in 1960, and from 1970 on it all kind of went south. Like Deere, Oliver had started out as a plow company, but unlike Deere they grew by merging with other firms, including Hart-Parr. For a time they also built the Cletrac (Cleveland Tractor) “caterpillar” tractor, whose drive system had first allowed such machines to maintain power to both tracks as the machine turned. The first real modern tank, the Renault FT of 1917, had a Cletrac running gear.
The Massey-Ferguson 65 I am very familiar with, as this is the tractor with which we baled lots of hay as a teenager. My introduction to overdrive and free-wheeling with the “Multi-Power” system. The Massey 35 was for several generations a very popular “yard scraper” tractor in England-compact, powerful enough, and with a scraper mounted on the rear three point hitch just the thing for cleaning up after the livestock. Many of these were built with the wonderful Perkins diesel engines.
That Volvo is fun, clearly styled after the Raymond Loewy Farmalls. As with Volvo’s post-war cars, if you are going to borrow a design, best to borrow a good one.
The John Deere 3020 is from the mid-’60’s, before they put the hydraulic controls beside the driver’s seat. A solid four plow tractor, especially in the diesel version, with a strong transmission and powerful hydraulics. Along with the bigger, 5 plow 4020, the popularity of these tractors put all the other manufacturers on notice in the ’60’s, as the International Harvester’s Farmall had in the ’30’s.
Wonderful selection of makes and models. I wonder how the “shop man” on the kibbutz managed to find the parts to keep them all running. I don’t imagine he or she could just run into town to the company store. Thanks again, now I have to go back and look some more.
One more thing and then I’ll be quiet. The “grinding mill” is likely a burr mill-think of two heavy, round cast iron or steel plates, set vertically and a precise distance from each other, with carefully formed ridges on each face. One remains stationary, while the other rotates, and as grain or ears of corn are funneled down from that hopper on the top the material falls in between the “burrs” and is ground up. Very much like a water-driven stone mill, except that the business part of the machine is mounted on a horizontal shaft, instead of vertical. The space between the burrs can be adjusted for different materials. Burr mills are very solid and reliable machines for grinding up grain or ears of corn, although in my time most were replaced by hammer mills, which have larger capacity. It looks that this one is driven by a belt off of the motor.
Thank you for posting these, I could look at tractors for hours, The first vehicle I ever drove was a Massey Ferguson 35, I can’t remember how old I was, probably about 10 or 11.
I still remember the heavy duty sounding grind as I selected gears. And discovered the relentless feel of power as I struggled to control the machine, a flattened wire fence was the result, but I got better after that episode.
Here is a picture of it.
Coming from an IH family, I like the offset Farmall.