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If you do, then please help me keep memories alive by sending me anything you have on these for inclusion on this site. If you don't want me to publish the details, please say so, but still send them to me for my edification. Marshall, Sons & Co of Gainsborough had produced steam equipment from early days. They went on to design and build the single cylinder Field Marshall tractor, which showed its pedigree - solidly built and with an unrivalled economy. They then went on to build multi-cylinder tractors, but these were nowhere like as popular as the original. The single-cylinders are ever-popular at ploughing matches and vintage shows, with their distinctive exhaust note audible from a considerable distance. In the meantime, having been successful builders of threshing equipment since 1849, they more or less stuck driving wheels and a gearbox under the front end, added a header unit and two Coventry Climax engines and redirected the feed. This was after a stint building trailer combines to produce the Grain Marshall Combine Harvester "The Silver Queens". The header on the self-propelled that I encountered was adjusted for height by a hand-operated winch through a steel hawser and counter-balance weights. I was reminded of all this by an article that appeared in the September 2007 edition of "Old Tractor". I sometimes 'do a google' and type in the name of a friends. I am struck by the contrast between the number of items relating to pop stars and their ilk and those that refer to people I know or have known. Those who I consider to have been 'real' people and of great worth seem to be unmentioned on the web. When it is said that everybody has their fifteen minutes of fame I find it ?sad? that in fact so few do. But maybe this is a result of exploding populations, with this country threatened with a 12% growth in the next 20 years or so and to a total of 108million by 2081. With that density the research into the link between rat delinquency and ours will surely show up.
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