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<blockquote data-quote="llamedos" data-source="post: 2441144" data-attributes="member: 162"><p>posted on behalf of [USER=2904]@Graham A.B Edwards[/USER] </p><p></p><p>Dear Organisers of TFF. It was 42 years ago at Manchester University that a young man decided ,on the basis of his on farm WORK TASK ANALYSIS, {this was for his M.Sc.Thesis ] which studied the farmers calendar year in some detail,decided that "because Land-Rovers, ploughing -first Tractors were in use alongside farmers trucks", he thought that a combination vehicle ,called the TRANTOR TRACTOR [Transport-first-tractor ,not ploughing -first tractor ] ought to be created and so he built a prototype & then built & sold 20 additional prototypes to South Africa, Malaysia,Zambia & Nigeria.</p><p>In the 70`s Eva industries plc built and sold 65 SERIES one Trantor tractors [ TRANTOR being TRANSPORT-FIRST not Ploughing -first Tractors ].Quite a few of these very different low-weight high speed trantors are still in use and a facebook site exists for Trantor owners.In 1984 the designer who had obtained his M.Sc degree decided to establish his own assembly facility & built another 65 SERIES Two Mark one Trantors and sold them in to USA, Malaysia,Ireland ,Scotland ,YEMEN,Australia Sri-Lanka.India. to learn about world farming........The uk-company`s directors began to understand that a TRANSPORT-FIRST Tractor was certainly an important need in palm-oil,sugar-cane,sugar beet,maize wheat barley cotton ,tobacco ,soya-bean etc .........big volume crops across the globe.At this time it was Prof. Malcolm Stansfield that informed his students that Transportation & low-draught work consumed more time & effort than ploughing,sub-soiling & rotovating.</p><p>The factory in Sandbach produced 65 Series two Mark one Transport-first tractors & the directors learnt a thing or two about Assembling in UK with a UK_supply-chain.......risks that even the more experienced tractor assemblers like Massey Ferguson , Leyland , Case-IH, David Brown found impossible.............................and therefore moved out of UK.</p><p>The Trantor team of enthusiastic designers formed themselves in to an INNOVATIVE design & product development team & addressed the supply-chain difficulties in UK by working for MASSEY FERGUSON in Mexico , Pakistan & Turkey but worked closely with TATA =TELCO in INDIA. The MF work ended when Agco became a USA-owned & managed company.</p><p>Then in 2005, TRANTOR `s team heard about NO-TILL farming in which the CA [Conservation Agriculture} system has much fewer work tasks and does not consist of ANY plowing at all.Music in the ears of TIL`s designers & market researchers.....................as FAO,worldwide,ECAF in Europe.lots of no-till farmers clubs in USA CANADA BRAZIL etc............................began to be formed & lots of soil science & soil-health academics produced thousands of learned papers........with very few mentioning that "the MACHINERY FOR NO TILL IS VERY DIFFERENT or ought to be very Different to that which is heavy & slow"............because lots of soil are moved in plowing 2000 -3750 tonnes per hectare.........................and very little soil disturbance is conducted in CA-no-Till.</p><p>In January 2015,Innovate UK recognised the need for a low-weight high speed transport tractor for the CA-system of farming but also for grasslands,livestock farms & municipalities.</p><p>Progress in product design & development sometimes takes patience & time but the TFF has a no-till conference in Stevenage and the farm owner is,fortunately,well aware of the need to change the design of farm machinery.........largely in the direction of that M.Sc of the 1970`s.Thank you for the opportunity of explaining 42 years of work in UK and kindly note the No-till newsletter in USA was ALSO 42 years old this year,Graham</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="llamedos, post: 2441144, member: 162"] posted on behalf of [USER=2904]@Graham A.B Edwards[/USER] Dear Organisers of TFF. It was 42 years ago at Manchester University that a young man decided ,on the basis of his on farm WORK TASK ANALYSIS, {this was for his M.Sc.Thesis ] which studied the farmers calendar year in some detail,decided that "because Land-Rovers, ploughing -first Tractors were in use alongside farmers trucks", he thought that a combination vehicle ,called the TRANTOR TRACTOR [Transport-first-tractor ,not ploughing -first tractor ] ought to be created and so he built a prototype & then built & sold 20 additional prototypes to South Africa, Malaysia,Zambia & Nigeria. In the 70`s Eva industries plc built and sold 65 SERIES one Trantor tractors [ TRANTOR being TRANSPORT-FIRST not Ploughing -first Tractors ].Quite a few of these very different low-weight high speed trantors are still in use and a facebook site exists for Trantor owners.In 1984 the designer who had obtained his M.Sc degree decided to establish his own assembly facility & built another 65 SERIES Two Mark one Trantors and sold them in to USA, Malaysia,Ireland ,Scotland ,YEMEN,Australia Sri-Lanka.India. to learn about world farming........The uk-company`s directors began to understand that a TRANSPORT-FIRST Tractor was certainly an important need in palm-oil,sugar-cane,sugar beet,maize wheat barley cotton ,tobacco ,soya-bean etc .........big volume crops across the globe.At this time it was Prof. Malcolm Stansfield that informed his students that Transportation & low-draught work consumed more time & effort than ploughing,sub-soiling & rotovating. The factory in Sandbach produced 65 Series two Mark one Transport-first tractors & the directors learnt a thing or two about Assembling in UK with a UK_supply-chain.......risks that even the more experienced tractor assemblers like Massey Ferguson , Leyland , Case-IH, David Brown found impossible.............................and therefore moved out of UK. The Trantor team of enthusiastic designers formed themselves in to an INNOVATIVE design & product development team & addressed the supply-chain difficulties in UK by working for MASSEY FERGUSON in Mexico , Pakistan & Turkey but worked closely with TATA =TELCO in INDIA. The MF work ended when Agco became a USA-owned & managed company. Then in 2005, TRANTOR `s team heard about NO-TILL farming in which the CA [Conservation Agriculture} system has much fewer work tasks and does not consist of ANY plowing at all.Music in the ears of TIL`s designers & market researchers.....................as FAO,worldwide,ECAF in Europe.lots of no-till farmers clubs in USA CANADA BRAZIL etc............................began to be formed & lots of soil science & soil-health academics produced thousands of learned papers........with very few mentioning that "the MACHINERY FOR NO TILL IS VERY DIFFERENT or ought to be very Different to that which is heavy & slow"............because lots of soil are moved in plowing 2000 -3750 tonnes per hectare.........................and very little soil disturbance is conducted in CA-no-Till. In January 2015,Innovate UK recognised the need for a low-weight high speed transport tractor for the CA-system of farming but also for grasslands,livestock farms & municipalities. Progress in product design & development sometimes takes patience & time but the TFF has a no-till conference in Stevenage and the farm owner is,fortunately,well aware of the need to change the design of farm machinery.........largely in the direction of that M.Sc of the 1970`s.Thank you for the opportunity of explaining 42 years of work in UK and kindly note the No-till newsletter in USA was ALSO 42 years old this year,Graham [/QUOTE]
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