Tractors with a hot bulb or semi-diesel engine were popular on the Continent for 30 years from the early 1920s, but failed to sell in Britain – the country where the hot bulb was invented. Some ...

Antique farm equipment should have its own place in the history book of weird wheels. Some tractors from the middle of the last century could be started with paper and a shotgun shell, while others ...

The diesel engine was, like many things, born of necessity. The main engine types of the day—hot bulb oil, steam, coal gas, and gasoline—were not so thermally efficient or ideal for doing heavy-duty ...