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Usually called the number on the bonnet.
There is "Tractor Bach" as it was the smallest of the bunch at one point, there is smaller now, but the name has stuck.
The combines were referred to by their number plates, still do, even though there's only one now.
We had a combine called "Combine Damp" as when I was a kid, the open top combine had it's seat removed when being sheeted over at night, to keep it airy, "Dont sit on that, It's damp!" said my mother to me one day, hence, combine damp!
We had a David Brown 1200 with a Sta Dri Victor Cab, with the sticker above the windscreen, she was known as, creatively, as "Victor Cab"
There is "Tractor Bach" as it was the smallest of the bunch at one point, there is smaller now, but the name has stuck.
The combines were referred to by their number plates, still do, even though there's only one now.
We had a combine called "Combine Damp" as when I was a kid, the open top combine had it's seat removed when being sheeted over at night, to keep it airy, "Dont sit on that, It's damp!" said my mother to me one day, hence, combine damp!
We had a David Brown 1200 with a Sta Dri Victor Cab, with the sticker above the windscreen, she was known as, creatively, as "Victor Cab"
And I've just remembered another Major was known as 'The Commodore', again for reasons unknown. The first two are still with us, my sister has Jenny as a logsplitter tractor, and Lulu was sold to and restored by a chap in Northern Ireland. Sadly the Commodore caught fire while baling one day in the late 70s and after a period of being a spares donor was finally scrapped.
