Do Indians not like David Browns

[Devil's advocate]

Indians still build tractors very similar to MF 135, Ford 3000 & similar Renalt tractors.

Why don't they build a David Brown they were much more fun, especially DB 780?

 

[tractorsandcows]

No they scalp them

 

[Wellytrack]

Poor form @Devil's advocate

On top of their social class issues, poverty, disease, pungent unsanitary overcrowded city streets, corruption, unsafe drinking water, child labour, criminal gangs of scammers, natural disasters, floods, fires earthquakes and plagues of horrible insects, even with all this, you think all this is even yet, still not enough.

My God.

No, you still would think its appropriate that an unsuspecting driver would catch his coat pocket on the hand throttle and at best tear it off, at worst land headfirst overboard.

Well I say enough. Indians should be allowed some respite from hardship.

They have to start somewhere…….

 

[Farmer Roy]

Did anyone EVER like David Browns ?



I think there are very good reasons why no one builds them anymore

 

[Netherfield]

Did anyone EVER like David Browns

John1594

 

[DrDunc]

My uncle loved his huge cabless 1212



He's never been committed to the asylum, but does need to keep taking regular medication

 

[ford 7810]

I remember going to meeting on David Brown tractors in the late 70s and they proudly said they exported 70% of there production,but production wouldn’t be anywhere near that of Ford or MF and they had factories in other countries and they would probably sell off there tooling or castings and such like whereas David Brown just really fell by the way side and Shut the shop .

 

[Exfarmer]

Indians still build tractors very similar to MF 135, Ford 3000 & similar Renalt tractors.

Why don't they build a David Brown they were much more fun, especially DB 780?

The engineering was far beyond them, the Fergies you could make in a village forge, it was the Japanese who went for the product which required precision engineering

 

[ford 7810]

Not wanting to get in a argument (put okay, it’s usually good for a laugh)I would have thought a780/880/990 would have been every bit as good as a MF or Ford of that era.my opinion is they totally lost the way and fell to bits by the time they got into the quiet cab era they were a bloody awful tractor by then ?

 

[Farmer Roy]

Not wanting to get in a argument (put okay, it’s usually good for a laugh)I would have thought a780/880/990 would have been every bit as good as a MF or Ford of that era.my opinion is they totally lost the way and fell to bits by the time they got into the quiet cab era they were a bloody awful tractor by then ?

I’ve never seen a DB with a proper cab on it, but even the ones without any sort of ROPS or cabs you needed to be some sort of contortionist to get in & out of them

they’d obviously never heard of ergonomic design or gave any thought towards the operator . . .

 

[ford 7810]

I’ve never seen a DB with a proper cab on it, but even the ones without any sort of ROPS or cabs you needed to be some sort of contortionist to get in & out of them

they’d obviously never heard of ergonomic design or gave any thought towards the operator . . .

I like the ones with just the 4 poster safety cab on with out any cladding, but I now what your saying but Nuffield or fordson major are just as bad and designed in a similar era

 

[Hilly]

We had a DB 996 for many years and did us ok at the time.

 

[Netherfield]

The best cab was the Sekura Low Profile, but it never really took off.

 

[ford 7810]

The best cab was the Sekura Low Profile, but it never really took off.

Yeah there the best cabs the ones you can take off that’s why I like the four poster

 

[essexpete]

I would have thought the Explorer cab was not too bad as fitted to the late DBs?

 

[ford 7810]

I would have thought the Explorer cab was not too bad as fitted to the late DBs?

Cab would be a good improvement on a 90 series but the tractor wasn’t they’d had it by then

 

[Exfarmer]

Cab would be a good improvement on a 90 series but the tractor wasn’t they’d had it by then

Sadly the takeover first by Tennecco then Case Corporation was not a happy time but of course the next series to be developed by Meltham The Maxxum range is widely recognised to have been a step forward in agricultural tractors. Sadly a disastrous series of decision made by the Case management at the time firstly, the decision to build them in Germany spending an astronomic sum creating a new factory on top of the existing plant. This was. Topped by the tractors being launched when the German currency was at record high levels ensuring they were too expensive for the market, resulting in the decision to relocate production to Doncaster, but Case by then were about finished

 

[ford 7810]

Yes the Maxxum designed by David Brown at Meltham was a great step forward and well thought of but sadly, in foreign hands

 

[Aircooled]

The blue ones starting to go the same way. Under engineered when you consider the price of them. Poor ventilation, clumsy doors, poor suspension, clumsy rear lift arms, 6 reverse gears. Yes that’s the bad points but not a bad tractor other ways. Like the Davy browns the nh’s have a bit of metal about them that helps them last but getting a bit crude. Maybe the profits aren’t being invested in the right place. Happens a lot, just saying.

 

[ford 7810]

That’s probably the trouble David Brown weren’t making profit sold out to the Americans but a similar or the same design from start to finish.ford was a new design in 1965 with to much American influence