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Built by Dan Albone at the beginning of the 20th century around 1903. Dan had a company in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire making bicycles and was a renowned racing cyclist. The company was set up near the Ivel River in the Ivel Works.
The tractor was fairly successful at the time with Dan doing a lot of demonstrations. he used to move into a field of wheat with the tractor and binder, cut the field, cart the sheaves with the tractor and cart, thresh the grain with a drum (thresher) powered by the tractor's belt pulley, grind flour with the tractor driving the mill then put it on the plough and plough the stubble. At the end of the day onlookers were served bread rolls from the wheat they had watched being harvested.
The company relied too much on Dan Albone and when he died at the age of 46 there was no- one involved with the drive to keep it running and developing the tractor. There are only about three tractors left in existance I believe. One is in the Science Museum in London.
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