A Towing Disaster

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Bas van Genderen tells us of a rather special vehicle that he recently bought. “Sometime after WW II a French farmer used his cycle car to make it into a tractor. He kept the chassis but shortened the rear. He also kept the 1200 cc CIME engine and gearbox. He reversed the rear axle and coupled that through a chain to a second gearbox. The original front axle was shortened and mounted under the chassis instead of the front. Unfortunately this ’racing’ tractor wasn’t too stable. When the farmer used it for towing a trailer, the vehicle jumped up and the farmer didn’t survive the accident. After that catastrophe the tractor hasn’t been used again. But what makes this monster rather special is that it has been a real E.H.P.!” (Editor: compare it with the photos of this one (click). We do urge Bas to be very careful with it!

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