Series II Field Marshall

The Field Marshalls were a range of British farm tractors manufactured by Marshall, Sons & Co. of Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3072x2048, 3429 KB)Series II Field Marshall, owned by G.P. Squirrell of Upper Dean, photograph by M. Squirrell. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3072x2048, 3429 KB)Series II Field Marshall, owned by G.P. Squirrell of Upper Dean, photograph by M. Squirrell. ... A modern European farm tractor. ... Marshall, Sons & Co. ... There are several places in England named Gainsborough : Gainsborough, Lincolnshire and an area of Ipswich. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ...

The Field Marshall and its caterpillar tracked construction industry counterpart, the Track Marshall, were distinctive because of the use of a single-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine (of about 6 litre capacity) coupled to a very large flywheel. The Field Marshall tractors were commonly used to pull agricultural machinery such as threshing machines from site to site. Once in place, the Field Marshall would be used as the powerplant for the machine, its flywheel coupled by a large, flat drive belt. Caterpillar tracks are large (modular) tracks used on tanks, construction equipment and certain other off-road vehicles. ... now. ... Spoked flywheel Simple flywheel in motion. ... Agricultural machinery is one of the most revolutionary and impactful applications of modern technology. ... The thrashing machine, or, in modern spelling, threshing machine, was a machine invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. ...

Field Marshalls with tracks were produced under the Fowler name, being converted in the Fowler factory at Leeds. The first were designated the Fowler VF, later ones being VFAs. Statistics Population: 443,247 Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SE297338 Administration Metropolitan borough: City of Leeds Metropolitan county: West Yorkshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: West Yorkshire Historic county: Yorkshire (West Riding) Services Police force: West Yorkshire Police Ambulance service...

Later the two firms would be drawn together and a large number of complicated take-overs by such firms as British Leyland led to the wheeled tractor concern being owned by Bentall Simplex in the early 80s. They brought with the company the whole Leyland wheeled tractor range which had previously been built at Bathgate (which itself had started out as a Nuffield Universal tractor site). These were then badge engineered into the 'Marshall' range. The company even designed and built some totally new tractors but unfortunately due to the high costs and consequently high asking price, the tractors didn't sell as well as they could and the company slipped under. In the end only the Track Marshall concern was left, although even this has since gone bankrupt. The British Leyland Motor Corporation (often abbreviated to simply BL), was a Britain in 1968. ... Bathgate on a misty day Bathgate is a town in West Lothian, Scotland, on the M8 motorway five miles west of Livingston. ... The Nuffield Universal was a tractor produced by the British Nuffield Organisation from 1948. ... Badge engineering is a term that describes the rebadging of one model of car as another. ...