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Seen a classified ad for the above.
Was there ever a Nuffield with a factory fitted 6 cylinder engine?
Was there ever a Nuffield with a factory fitted 6 cylinder engine?
Wasn't there a Nuffield P6, ie fitted with Perkins 6 cylinder? I thought one changed hands a couple of years ago for £50000. Only a few made, ahead of their time power wise. Would have been awesome.
I had a D4 with the BMC 4 cylinder and 1000 psi hydraulics. Carting beet was a nightmare. Backed up to heap, brake on, full throttle and string round hydraulic valve lever to hold it in raise position then jump out and get my back under beet trailer to help it start tipping. Or the loader under the front of trailer if it was a big load. 1000 psi hydraulics, who thought of that one?
Forgot that the first DM4 was produced with a Perkins P4 engine!No. The D4 had a 3.4l up to the 4/65 with a 3.8l BMC. 4 cyl only.
Wasn't there a Nuffield P6, ie fitted with Perkins 6 cylinder? I thought one changed hands a couple of years ago for £50000. Only a few made, ahead of their time power wise. Would have been awesome.
I think that you are thinking about the Marshall MP6
That was a beast!
Just looked it up, 6cyl 351 cu in (5760cc), 70bhp @ 1700rpm. 3700kg without ballast, 14 x 34 tyres. So only a small tractor by today's standards, yet it had awesome reputation - does that say something about modern-day compaction perhaps, that we need much bigger tractors to do the same job?pretty sure that had a 6 pot leyland engine though?
Just looked it up, 6cyl 351 cu in (5760cc), 70bhp @ 1700rpm. 3700kg without ballast, 14 x 34 tyres. So only a small tractor by today's standards, yet it had awesome reputation - does that say something about modern-day compaction perhaps, that we need much bigger tractors to do the same job?
Wasn't the Perkins P6, as mentioned above and also fitted in the E27N Major, 'only' about 45hp?
perkins p6 in the major had 2 different specs...the agri engine, which had cast iron pistons, revved to 2000rpm and developed 45hp. The industrial spec engine had ally pistons and revved to nearer 3000rpm
Definitely a Rainthorpe conversion that one. They used to keep a spare engine on the workshop shelf for most of their common tractors !Nuffield had a 6 cyl kit in 1960s, had to be fitted at a dealer with new or gold seal engine
Because Rainthorpe were making P6 nuffields with 80hp, like this one
I think that you are thinking about the Marshall MP6
That was a beast!
Definitely a Rainthorpe conversion that one. They used to keep a spare engine on the workshop shelf for most of their common tractors !