Posted by Majorman on October 19, 2023 at 01:24:25 from (86.134.80.232):
Yesterdays picture of the Howard Land Drainer with a reduction box started me thinking. Some have heard of the other Howard product, the Rotovator, but Howard was involved in a number of agricultural machines, some successful others not.They started to build there own tractor with a rotovator built in but soon moved to making stand alone machines for other makes like the Fordson N and Fordson E27N Major.
Howard was founded in Wagga Wagga, Australia and there is a small museum on Lord Baden Powell Drive in the town. The company then moved to England and set up a factory building various sizes of Rotovator, originally called a rotary hoe, for horticulture and farm work. Horticultural machines from the Bantam to the large Gem were the Rolls Royce of the horticultural world until the introduction of the side drive Honda machines in the 1970's. Other Howard products were the Rotaspreader, barrel type muck spreader, very popular, simple machine, great until you get a side wind and have no cab! Then there was the Howard Harvestore grain and grass silo with its glass coated panels. The company also made the very popular Massey Ferguson 30 grain drill at a factory in Diss, a few miles from me in Norfolk.
In the 1970's they tried to get into the big baler market but were not successful, other companies were building Rotaspreader types when the patents ran out and the company folded. The drill manufacture was taken over by Dowdeswell for a short time until they too ran into financial difficulties and the rotovator business was taken over by Standen-Pearson Machinery of Ely who is still producing machines based on the Howard design.
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