When the M's and H's were imported into England in the early and mid forties (This is a far as I am aware) they were all P/P that is what we called petrol-parrafin i.e gas/ Distillate. I never saw one with a starter motor. This includes within reason all the other makes as well. There was no money to buy things like batteries and indeed when they were used for ploughing in the winter, most of them went onto 'irons' for two or three months because of the heavy wear on rubber tyres same reason even if they were available there was no money to buy them. So the tractors lived under tarps in the fields. The most important part was to ensure that the ignition system and the fuel system was as perfectly adjusted as possible, because starting one of those in a field in the dark in the middle of winter was no joke. If the mag and fuel was right it was not a problem. I agree entirely with the comments about the methods of using the handle, and the only people I've seen hurt are the ones who are careless and know that " well I've done it this way forever and it can't happen to me" Well it can. For what its worth I bough two H's recently and niether have ever had a starter motor. I stow the handle in fron of the seat it lays ok around the bottom of the steering columb. Heaven I didn't realize that I was that old. MTF
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