1916 Overtime Model R 'The Offaly Rover'
1916 Overtime Model R in Patrick Kielty's Tractor Wars: Ferguson vs Ford, Documentary, 2022
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◊ 2022-10-24 16:26 |
![[Image: 001654.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/001654.jpg) ![[Image: 001639.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/558/001639.jpg) Harry Ferguson imported Overtime tractors and sold them in Belfast Northern Ireland |
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◊ 2022-10-24 20:45 |
1916 https://www.wheelsandfields.com/the-overtime-tractor-story-in-ireland/ 'The Offaly Rover' https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/john-deere-eventually-moves-abroad/ |
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◊ 2022-10-25 13:16 |
"The tractors were bought from America from 1914 onwards to help Britain grow food as part of the World War I effort. Farm labour was getting scarce and this was the first period when machines could be seen as replacing farm human and horse labour. The British government gave London-based JL Martin Ltd of Minories a licence to import about 6,000 tractors that were being produced as cheap fuel oil engines by the Waterloo Boy Tractor Company in the United States." https://www.wheelsandfields.com/the-overtime-tractor-story-in-ireland/ It was probably the re-named exported version of the 1914-1917 Waterloo Boy model R http://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/000/0/2/21-waterloo-boy-r.html Therefore either Overtime Model R, or more likely, without any model name as being the only Overtime tractor. |
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◊ 2022-10-26 11:41 |
Another different Overtime model, the Overtime Model N shown here indicating both the Model N and Model R were imported into the UK. They were imported as major components with the final assembly carried out in the UK. |
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◊ 2022-10-26 14:48 |
Watched the clip as Patrick chugs slowly round the field - it looks more like a shrunken traction engine than what I think of as a tractor. I guess Ferguson reacted similarly as his inspiration to design something a "proper" farm tractor. |
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◊ 2022-10-29 01:56 |
Nothing found for IR 2184. 14WD1 Make Unspecified, 1914 Body: Agricultural tractor Engine CC: 25 Fuel: Petrol Colour: Green |
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◊ 2022-10-30 14:48 |
My tractor picture book has short reference to Waterloo Boy as making sporadic tractorish things from early 1890s with John Froelich first machine being perhaps the world's first tractor. Waterloo Boy company established in 1893 and produced further Froelich designs - maybe one-off development models, rather than commercial production - but he left the company when they preferred stationary engines. In 1911 Waterloo Boy restarted tractor development, launching an un-named model in 1914 as "the forerunner of what became the Model R. It was powered by a horizontal 2-cylinder engine and soon superseded by the Model N. This went on sale in 1916, and over its eight year production run, around 20,000 were made. The Model N was sold in Britain as the Overtime by the Overtime Farm Tractor Company, based in London.". Text goes on to say it had 25 hp (which might explain where the 25 comes from in the plate info for 14WD1 ??) and mentions Harry Ferguson as the Belfast agent. (John) Deere and Company bought Waterloo Boy in 1918, and continued Model N production until 1924 - this was their first tractor. |
