Wartime airfield Coles crane

I’m after a tractor to tug the Harvard around after it’s done. Bit too big to push around on your own. A bomb tractor would be good, or an old RAF tractor (what did they use – Fordsons?)

For David Brown’s this website / group is a good source of information http://www.dbtc.co.uk/

I believe that some sales are made at this event in November http://www.newarkvintagetractorshow.com/ plus NAM’s David Brown is sometimes displayed there as part of their remembrance / commemoration area! That tractor is still in use and was used to tow the Gnat in and out of Hangar 2 last week.

I’m after a tractor to tug the Harvard around after it’s done. Bit too big to push around on your own. A bomb tractor would be good, or an old RAF tractor (what did they use – Fordsons?)

At places like Cromer there are lots of old tractors standing on the shoreline. They are used to launch and retrieve small fishing boats. Perhaps one becomes available from time to time.

Harvard, you could do with a David Brown or a Fordson Standard.

I’m after a tractor to tug the Harvard around after it’s done. Bit too big to push around on your own. A bomb tractor would be good, or an old RAF tractor (what did they use – Fordsons?)

Well done Tim.

Thats a rare piece of kit now..

PM me an email address please, might be able to point you in the direction of two in a scrapyard.

Tim,

I’m a bit short on detail and accuracy but, there is, situated in a local marina, what appears to my uneducated eye to be a WW2 bomb trolley tractor. It looks in good nick. I know the owner. If you PM me, I can, if you’re interested, pass you contact details.

He might be willing to part with it, especially if it is going to a museum for preservation.

Hope you dont mind – I reoriented your pic…

I scratch-built a model timber-tractor Matador. The cab is nice and straight-forward, with NO double curvature.

Good luck with the project.

Thanks for the replies, I’ve tried HMVF too and had some good leads. The crane is in surprisingly good condition and having sat outside in a hedge for the last 15 years she actually runs. Once she has been in for bead blasting and painting she will look as good a new. The biggest problem is finding parts for the drivers cab but there are plenty of AEC Matadors still around.

Excellent, have you tried

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/index.php

Fantastic, love old airfield vehicles, I must say it will be a up hill struggle from the look of the photo !, sorry