Ransomes and their Tractor Share Ploughs

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Hardback book, 246 x 189 mm, 100 pages, 120 photos

Published 2001

Price £15.95

ISBN 1-903366-12-7

Aimed at tractor and ploughing enthusiasts, this is the first book to classify, describe and show the wide range of ploughs produced by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies.
After a brief introduction to the company’s history, Tony Clare gives an account of the ploughs which dominated the horse era of farming and were then adapted to be trailed behind tractors and mounted on them. He covers in detail the development of tractor plough design as well as ploughs for special purposes, market-garden use and export. He deals with Ford-Ransomes manufacturing as well as the rationalisations of the 1960s and the final links with Dowdeswells.

Analyses of plough identification codes, the "TS" classifications and a glossary complete a comprehensive and very usable book for the many people who value their Ransomes ploughs for matches and at work.

Ransomes and their Tractor Share Ploughs - Anthony Clare

		The TS50 and 51 two- and one-furrow reversibles were among the early mounted ploughs. This single-furrow is fitted with deep digging bodies.

A general view of plough assembly in the New Work Department taken in 1938 showing a variety of plough types under assembly and material on the right-hand side for manufacturing purposes.

		Ransomes’ largest multi-furrow trailing plough, the TS41 Supertrac, initially produced in a batch of 800 for land clearance work in India. In this photograph it is complete with the SU bodies specially made for it.