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in production from 22hp to 125hp, plus they had a large spare parts business for the 120,000 Nuffield, Leyland and
Marshall tractors around the world. This wide range of tractors largely came about by importing Steyr tractors and marketing them under the Marshall brand. The Track Marshall business was also sold in 1986, to a former sales director, Hubert Flatters. He saved the business but unfortunately died in 1987. The business was sold by his family in 1990 to Tom Walkinshaw's
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which was built in 1943 as part of the war effort to make track links for tanks. The two companies merged their activities to some extent and initially products were marketed under the Fowler-Marshall brand, but John Fowler and Co (Leeds) retained its identity and operated as a subsidiary company. By
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Marshall company changed ownership before becoming owned by Bentall Simplex who moved tractor production from Gainsborough to their 25 acre factory at Scunthorpe. Under Bentall Simplex Marshall tractors were increasingly fitted with Perkins engines. By 1989 a wide range of tractors were
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In 1842 William
Marshall bought the defunct engineering works of William Garland and Son at Back Street Foundry in Gainsborough. In 1849 he renamed it the Britannia Ironworks and began to produce road steam engines. In 1857 his son James Marshall become a partner and the company name was changed to
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Gainsborough, and in 1975 T.W.Ward Ltd sold Marshall to British Leyland, who merged it with their Aveling-Barford products to form Aveling-Marshall, who made tracked crawlers and wheeled loaders. However British Leyland
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range, producing them at
Gainsborough (although using engines and parts from Leyland) and selling them under the Marshall name. Initially successful, the venture failed to generate enough capital to fund the successful development of new models and the company began to lose its market share.
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After the merger with Fowler, their experience with tracked agricultural and military vehicles was used to create the Fowler
Marshall Diesel Crawler, which was launched in 1948. Fowler continued to develop and market tracked vehicles while Marshall produced the wheeled
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has four
Marshall models on display, two roadrollers, one large compound 12 Ton model built in 1922 and a smaller compound 8 Ton built in 1925 are fully restored to working order. The remaining two, a 1916 and a 1928 roadroller are awaiting restoration.
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Marshall engine 46583 stands derelict outside at the
Gorreana tea plantation on the island of São Miguel in the Azores. Marshall tea processing machinery - some of it still in use - can be found here and also at the nearby Porto Formoso tea plantation.
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Models included the 502, 602, 604, 702, 704, 802, 804 and 904XL, which were a continuation of the corresponding Leyland models. Other new models were in 1985 the 100 (Leyland 6/98 engine) and a single 115 (Turbo 100 version).
544:, Channel Islands, there is what is believed to be the last surviving Guernsey steam boiler used for sterilising tomato greenhouses. The steam boiler was recently refurbished and is currently in storage with Guernsey museum.
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William Marshall and Son. In 1861 another son, Henry Dickenson Marshall, became a partner. William Marshall died in 1861 and his two sons continued the business. It was incorporated as a limited company in 1862.
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184 (187hp 4WD) and 264 (26hp 4WD) and in 1989 were added the 224 (4WD 3-cylinder 22hp) and 304 (4WD 4-cylinder 30hp), all of which were made by Ferrari (tractors) of Luzzara. Around 1990 they began importing
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two-seat biplane fighters. When the aircraft were completed they were dismantled and towed to West Common in Lincoln to be flown, although some were flown from Layne's Field in Gainsborough.
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from Germany. They launched the 15/30 (Model E) in 1930, followed by the 12/20 which became the Model M in 1938; this then developed into the
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tractors as well as other vehicles such as diesel road rollers. The tracked vehicles included the Fowler Challenger and from 1955 the
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from Austria, and selling them as Marshall D642, D644, D742, D744, D842, D844, D944, D110, D135, and D150. This continued until 1992.
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purchased the entire assets of Marshall, Sons & Co Ltd. In January 1947 it was reported that Marshall had acquired
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was a British agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in 1848. The company was based in the
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Marshall Sons & Co traction engine powered timber saw recorded at Fawley Hill, 18 May 2013.
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920:"1922 Marshall Compound 12 Ton Steam Roller. Used by the Parish of St Saviour Into the 1950's"
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The oldest existing Marshall Traction Engine supplied to the British Market is number 14242,
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Three Decades of Marshall Tractors, by Peter Anderson,
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