Another development of the use of the Internal Combustion engine to aid with all those small and not so small tasks around the farm and estate. Used to replace the Horse on the threshing floor in the de-chaffing of the wheat/Corn etc. Grinding of corn form flour and feed, chopping of feed crops for man and beast, pumping of drains and other fluids, generation of electricity for light in the field or barn. Heir use goes on with many hundreds if not thousands being exported and produced worldwide.

Those displayed cover the period 1910’s – 1970’s and manufactured by the following:

Lister
Onan
Hobbs
Bentall Pioneer
Stewart Turner
Ruston Hornsby
Amanco
Petter
Littlejumb
Wolsley
Fairbanks Morse
Banfords
Etc.

Look out for the oddities, they do exist…

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