Ford Now Making Smaller Tractor
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AN interesting development in For production is the new Fordson Dexta
tractor, which had been designed as a smaller complement to the existing Major model.
In the Dexta, the Ford and Ransames concerns have combined their design experience and manufacturing facilities to produce a new range of equipment. Every implement is matched to the tractor, which will easily haul a 3-ton. trailer. The oil engine is a highefficiency three-cylindered model, with Simms injection pump, giving 32 b.h.ja. at 2,000 r.p.m. It is basically a Perkins design.
There is a hydraulic power lift with gear-type pump, and the total weight is 2,980 lb. A dry double-plate clutch of 9-in, diameter permits a live power take-off.
The transmission provides six speeds in constant mesh, giving road speeds ranging from 1.7 m.p.h. to 16.8 m.p.h. at 2,000 r.p.m., and there are two reverse gears giving 2.66 m.p.h. and 7.42 m.p.h.
The main dimensions are: overall length, 1181 in.; width, 641 in.; wheelbase, 731 in. The front axle is a pivoted three-piece construction, adjustable from 48 in. to 76 in. in 4-in. steps. Track adjustment for the semi-floating rear axle is the same.
PROMPT MEAT TRANSPORT TO. AIRPORT NVHEN Mannings (Devon), Ltd., Dawlish, last week sought a new A licence for a vehicle to carry fresh meat within 300 miles of Exeter, and to add conditions to their B licence for two vehicles to enable them to carry for the Fatstock Marketing Corporation and the Dewhurst concern, a supporting witness told the Western Licensing Authority of the need for prompt deliveries to Lydd airport.
He Was Mr. Eustace Chiswell, transport officer of the F.M.C. In 1956, he stated, the Corporation had started an export trade to France and chartered an aircraft from Lydd to deal with it. The vehicle which delivered the meat to the airport could not leave until the aircraft had unloaded at its destination.
Mr. Chiswell added that if the railways were employed it was necessary to have meat available for collection by 4 p.m.
British Railways objected to the expansion of the B-licence terms and, together with British Road Services, to the application for an A licence. Because the applicants had not supplied copies of documents to the B.R.S. representative, the case was adjourned until December 12 for this to be done.
FOG-LAMP RULES
THE Ministry of Transport intend to make regulations requiring 2 ft. 2 in. to be the minimum height at which a fog lamp or driving lamp may be fixed to a vehicle. At present, lamps attached at less than this height from the ground may be used only in fog or falling snow.