Posted by athol carr on June 14, 2012 at 14:30:09 from (115.188.3.223):
In Reply to: Re: Distillate A posted by Harold H on June 14, 2012 at 05:05:37:
The early sales literature for the Farmalls H and M imply that distillate was the standard fuel and that a high compression head and cold manifold were available for those who wanted to use high grade gasoline (70 octane or better) engines. Hence the use of a X1 suffix for tractors for gasoline only. The similar dated sales literature for the Farmalls A and B state that gasoline was the standard fuel but that distillate or kerosene burning attachments were available. Thus as gasoline was the normal fuel there was no necessity for a X1 suffix. Distillate was never available in New Zealand, and I presume in Australia as well. In the late 1940s kerosene was about a third of the price of petrol (gasoline) per gallon and the norm was for kerosene to be the standard farm tractor fuel. In the 1950s the rules changed so that for off-road use, petrol could be obtained without the road user taxes (there was talk at the time of colouring it so that it could be detected in vehicles on the road) and the use of kerosene rapidly declined. Many radiator shutters were subsequently taken off tractors, put in the back of the tractor shed to get mangled and thus discarded. They are fairly hard to find today. I imported a shutter for my 1941 W-4 from eBay in the US, it had all the other bits except the shutter.
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