steve d

Looks similar in size and design as the Wheelhorse Seniors. 

ive only seen pics of the senior and looking forward to seeing neils at some point.but the gearboxes seem very alike three forward plus reverse .only the parts on the ota were fitted to a ford popular.

As with many of these smaller tractors being built just after the war and the early to mid fifties in this country.

What a great restoration and I m loving seeing these little tractors we dont see in this country keep em coming.

What I would love to see now is a pond walk behind.

Well tractor fest is only up the road from Hawkhurst !

You could do like the good life mate and tow a trailer on the holder.

I like that one nigel but d ont see enough of it out and about.

Engine is a techumseh/aspera like what the flymo s had on them neil .

So heres a pic of my garage and this is without whats at my old house and my mums!

I will certainly try mr mackellow but you know what my garage is like!

This my sheen that I aquired from nigel and am in the process of rebuilding the engine was siezed up but now free and has super compression just got to get it finnished now .

Also rumoured is mr showman could be attending.so watch this space!

So could be all the brothers back together.

Fab collection there and great to see the old stuff .keep em coming .

Oh and super restorations.

Steve

Hi darren as explained not a part of Ardingly vintage show for exactly the reasons of charges and other politics.so thats why we are having a gathering at the small holders show the week before instead and theres no charges and most of us are attending. Theres also our small get together at the lavendet line in isfield near Uckfield in Sussex in march which is a very friendly day.

C ant wait to see one of your restorations in the flesh darren

Are you coming to any of our gatherings this year.?

Nice collection there Steve 

 

Any chance of a photo of the gen set that goes with the lamp at the end.

Reason I ask is that I've got a little genset  that looks very similar and often wondered what it was for.

 

Andy

Hi andy im afraid the gen set doesn't belong to me but im not sure if mr mack has any other pics.

Also thank you so much for all the kind comments about her so far.

Nice tractor Steve, now I've seen two (I think) Would this one be a Monarch as well?

 

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Seen at Netley Marsh 2013

 

Andy

hi andy

The ota you have pictured is the early three wheel version. But these were not known as monarchs .it was only the four wheeled ones that were. Later on ota was taken over by singer cars .and I d ont think it was long after they stopped building these little gems.

Who are you then .are you that grumpy old man from hawkhurst.

He he.

I will be with you paul for help and setup mate plus our top secret display.

You know what were like mark we d ont do anything by halves.

Plenty more unusual machines in my collection ian so watch this space mate .oh and I d ont think the moles have got too

much to worry about as it takes me ages to get it to start .better off doing the garden by hand .
Ha Ha

They are quite rare in this area ian .but I will try and get her out again this year if I can.

One of my unusal bits .again ive had a lot of years and gets more interest than anything else in my collection

Made by Robinson s of Winchester.
Paul mackellow also now owns one with a hedge cutter attachment of which we usually display these

machines together and both run except mine is very temperamental unlike pauls.

I will be there to kev caravan in tow this time.

Thaught you might like to see my ota monarch tractor of 1952.ive owned her for a lot of years now and she is one of my most prized pieces in my collection. It is powered by a ford 10 engine and is petrol paraffin.

Heres a couple of pics of some of the colwoods I own .

I Actually own five dating from 1946 to 1948.

Plus I also run a register for anything made by dashwood engineering of London who produced these machines.