Old Mechanical Reaper
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Old Mechanical Reaper
Image: © Tony Atkin Taken: 8 Oct 2005
This piece of old farm machinery has been cleaned up and put on display by a local resident. This did not take power from the tractor like modern devices, the cutter was driven by the rotation of the wheels. On the hubcap of the wheel are the letters MH which I would guess might stand for Massey-Harris, a company formed in 1891 by the merger of two companies. The name died after 1953 on the merger with another company to form Massey-Ferguson.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.321856
Longitude
-5.16433