The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

Made:: 1902; 1913-1920 in Biggleswade and Birmingham

designer:: Daniel Albone

maker:: Lodge Plugs Limited

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Ivel agricultural tractor on three steel wheels (front single, with solid rubber tyre; rear, straked), designed by Daniel Alborne, and made by Ivel Agricultural Motors Limited, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, 1902, and two spark plugs by Lodge Sparking Plug Company Limited, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, 1913-1920. Engine: 2-cylinder horizontally opposed petrol. Believed to be the first 'production' tractor built by Ivel, and the first British internal combustion engine powered light agricultural tractor.

Ivel agricultural tractor on three steel wheels (front single, with solid rubber tyre; rear, straked), by 'The Ivel Agricultural Motors Ltd.', Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, 1902. Engine: 2-cylinder horizontally opposed petrol. Believed to be the first 'production' tractor built by Ivel, and the first British internal combustion engined light agricultural tractor.

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Category:: Agricultural Engineering

Object Number:: 1920-130

Materials:: incomplete, steel (metal), brass (copper, zinc alloy), copper (alloy), wood (unidentified) and paint

Measurements:: overall (approximate): 1350 mm x 1550 mm x 2700 mm, 1016.064 kg

type:: farming and tractor

credit:: Ivel Agricultural Motors Ltd.

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The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

Ivel agricultural tractor on three steel wheels (front single, with solid rubber tyre; rear, straked), designed by Daniel Alborne, and made by Ivel Agricultural Motors Limited, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, 1902. Engine: 2-cylinder horizontally opposed petrol. Believed to be the first 'production' tractor built by Ivel, and the first British internal combustion engine powered light agricultural tractor.