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<blockquote data-quote="Graham A.B Edwards" data-source="post: 2618282" data-attributes="member: 2904"><p>Dear Martian In September 1984 [the 26th] I stepped out of a Trantor tractor in to the RANGE-Rover Of Sir Anthony Bamford as he got in to our Series two Mark one with a Leyland 4-98 Turbo engine.Stuart & myself followed behind in ANTHONY`s [not then a knight of the garter] Range Rover.</p><p>This was a private meeting set up by Mike Butler & the MD of JCB ltd [ the late Gilbert Johnson].The objective of the meeting was set out by the writer who thought that the combination of the TELEHANDLER In Ag & the TRANTOR in AG would make sense to what we then thought was a BRITISH COMBINATION to lead the world in Farming.</p><p></p><p> The instigation was from our side because we had then thought......probably too early............ that we had a worldwide market for our Trantors.</p><p> </p><p>At the meeting at the Post House in Leicester, the consultant to JCB [Dr. R. Wishlade ] and users of Unimog MBtrac & conventional tractors seemed to find agreement that "IF IT DID NOT PLOUGH WELL IT WAS NOT A TRACTOR".</p><p></p><p>On 30 September 1984 a confidentiality agreement was signed between our company { 50% OWNED then BY TWO PARTNERS } & JCB ltd.</p><p></p><p>As can be imagined ,this was wholly against the views expressed in the M.Sc thesis which Stuart Taylor had produced..</p><p></p><p>Taylor considered that there was lots more to do in the ploughing system & on mixed farms than that which DOMINATED the thinking of Tractor designers.</p><p>JCB Ltd therefore decided to create a FAST & HEAVY TRACTOR which could plough and they created a FASTRAC.</p><p></p><p>The innovation of Taylors patents centred on his suspension system & JCB ltd found a way of not infringing on Taylor`s patent.</p><p>This was well explained in a letter from D.R.Bell,a Landpower executive.</p><p></p><p>What was interesting to me in Martian`s note was that "even the Fastrac can Plough" as most farmers know the plough has been central to farming since 1837 when John Deere produced the first steel plow.</p><p></p><p>These days,the soil scientists are not usually as vociferous as Ray Archuleta of TEXAS [an agronomist] who states ,in the New YORK Times of MARCH 2015......."plowing.exacts a price.It degrades the soil,killing off its biology,including beneficial funghi & earthworms & leaving it NAKED,Thirsty,HUNGRY& running a fever"</p><p></p><p>I doubt if anyone has expressed the degradation of soil as well as this Agronomist but it does place the 42 Years of interesting innovation in a very different context.....since our company began with £100 in 1973 & has continued with a most inspiring & challenging innovation for many years. .British design is certainly as good as it gets in the world of innovative farming..................... but patience is sometimes important .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graham A.B Edwards, post: 2618282, member: 2904"] Dear Martian In September 1984 [the 26th] I stepped out of a Trantor tractor in to the RANGE-Rover Of Sir Anthony Bamford as he got in to our Series two Mark one with a Leyland 4-98 Turbo engine.Stuart & myself followed behind in ANTHONY`s [not then a knight of the garter] Range Rover. This was a private meeting set up by Mike Butler & the MD of JCB ltd [ the late Gilbert Johnson].The objective of the meeting was set out by the writer who thought that the combination of the TELEHANDLER In Ag & the TRANTOR in AG would make sense to what we then thought was a BRITISH COMBINATION to lead the world in Farming. The instigation was from our side because we had then thought......probably too early............ that we had a worldwide market for our Trantors. At the meeting at the Post House in Leicester, the consultant to JCB [Dr. R. Wishlade ] and users of Unimog MBtrac & conventional tractors seemed to find agreement that "IF IT DID NOT PLOUGH WELL IT WAS NOT A TRACTOR". On 30 September 1984 a confidentiality agreement was signed between our company { 50% OWNED then BY TWO PARTNERS } & JCB ltd. As can be imagined ,this was wholly against the views expressed in the M.Sc thesis which Stuart Taylor had produced.. Taylor considered that there was lots more to do in the ploughing system & on mixed farms than that which DOMINATED the thinking of Tractor designers. JCB Ltd therefore decided to create a FAST & HEAVY TRACTOR which could plough and they created a FASTRAC. The innovation of Taylors patents centred on his suspension system & JCB ltd found a way of not infringing on Taylor`s patent. This was well explained in a letter from D.R.Bell,a Landpower executive. What was interesting to me in Martian`s note was that "even the Fastrac can Plough" as most farmers know the plough has been central to farming since 1837 when John Deere produced the first steel plow. These days,the soil scientists are not usually as vociferous as Ray Archuleta of TEXAS [an agronomist] who states ,in the New YORK Times of MARCH 2015......."plowing.exacts a price.It degrades the soil,killing off its biology,including beneficial funghi & earthworms & leaving it NAKED,Thirsty,HUNGRY& running a fever" I doubt if anyone has expressed the degradation of soil as well as this Agronomist but it does place the 42 Years of interesting innovation in a very different context.....since our company began with £100 in 1973 & has continued with a most inspiring & challenging innovation for many years. .British design is certainly as good as it gets in the world of innovative farming..................... but patience is sometimes important . [/QUOTE]
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