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THE FRENCH TRACTOR SHOW a fine display
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Novel Machines in a Wide Variety of Types Seen by Our Representatives at the Exhibition. Many American Appliances. Small British Power Units Popular
THE motor section of the annual Plough and Tractor Show, which was recently held in Paris, was more important than has been the ease for some years past. Apart from the stationary-engine section of the Show, oil engines were less in evidence than one might have expected.
The Peugeot-Junkers C.L.M. unit was there, of course, and the maker of the Rip tractor has adopted this type for all models. An interesting newcomer was the Rubezahl heavy-duty flexible. track tractor with a four-cylindered Linke 55 b.h.p. oil engine. The Renault concern showed several big four and six-cylinder oil-engined tractors, whilst Lanz also exhibited tractors with compression-ignition units.
Full American Representation.
The American contingent returned to the Show in full strength and staged some impressive exhibits, notable amongst them being the enormous AllisChalmers Monarch. This machine has six-cylitidered monobloe engine with removable liners, whilst there are separate heads for each pair of cylinders.
This unit runs at 1,050 r.p.m. The Latil company showed only one model, this being the J.T.L. tractor, arranged for forestry work, with capstan and other special equipment.
The Bertrand concern, which specializes in small motor ploughs and cultivating machines, showed an astonishing little two-wheeled tractor of the " motorhorse " type. Although the power unit comprised a 350 c.c. air-cooled motor cycle engine, the outfit was coupled up to a 2-ton trailer. The driving wheels of the tractor had twin rims carrying large-diameter giant pneumatics.
Amongst the smaller machines in the Show were several neat little hay cutters. One of these, the Adriance, had a four-cylindered engine with positive cooling by turbine fan and air jacketing. Transmissionfrom the engine to a countershaft which served both for propulsion and for operating the cutters was by means of a broad canvas belt.
The Dreheret concern displayed a number of small motor ploughs, equipped with J.A.P. water-cooled engines. Small British engines, it may be noted, appear still to be much in favour with French manufacturers of light agricultural machines. The closecoupling of ploughs and other implements was adopted almost without exception by exhibitors.
Many Oil Vaporizers.
A great number of tractors had oilvaporizing devices, a new applimiee of this type being shown by the Memini Carburetter Co. It is of the usual twocarburetter design for starting on petrol and turning over gradually to oil, and
is at present produced specially for Austin, Fordson and MacCorndekDeering tractors. One of the most interesting sectional exhibits was staged by the MacCormick Co., a big tractor, with a reaping and binding machine being shown with all the parts in movement, from the sectioned engine, gearbox and axle of the tractor to the last detail of the harvester. Another fine sectional exhibit was to be seen on the Austin stand, where no fewer than,nine tractors were on view.
An Electric Ploughing Outfit.
A novel and interesting exhibit was that of the Societe Ale-Thom, showing an electric cable-ploughing outfit designed for use on those farms where high-voltage overhead power lines may be tapped. It comprised a portable substation, bringing the current down to 500 volts, and two 45 h.p. winders. Small motor cultivators for , vineyard work were, as usual, a strong feature of the Show, SOMUa machines of this type being particularly worthy of note.
For the first time in eight years our photographer was refused entry to the Salon, no reason for this extraordinary decision being vouchsafed by the administration.