I like the gas can camoflaged on the back of the IH : )

juiceman wrote:

Okay, I want to keep harping on the IH here, even though it does not belong on this BB. WHY did IH not ever send a gas/diesel start machine over to Great Britain? My understanding is, all of the "British" or BT tractors that were diesel did not use the same engine as ones in America, rather a glow plug start engine, and not even sure if it was IH built.
Also wondering if the BT crawlers or wheel tractors had the same head cracking issues.
Nice to know that others collect iron of different color as well. JM

  

Whilst not an expert on IH machines, a book I have ("The Roar of Dust and Diesel" by Mike Teanby) says tractor production at Doncaster in the UK started in 1949 with the BM.
Prior to 1949 I believe some tractors were assembled at Doncaster from kits imported from the USA. IH started in Doncaster in the late 1930s.
British built models used the US designation but with a B (for British) in front, e.g. BMD6.
The British build diesels (which used glow plugs) had a really good reputation for reliability and "Lugging Power".
By 1952 IH were making diesel engines in Doncaster and putting them in Doncaster built tractors, the first one being the Super BMD.
The contractor I worked for as a teenager had a Doncaster BTD20 with the Rolls Royce (RR) diesel engine as mentioned by Deas. It was regarded as a good machine.
Interestingly, the former RR diesel engine factory in Shrewsbury is now owned by Caterpillar and used for re-manufacturing engines.
As well as my four Cats, I have two David Brown tractors, a 1940 VAK1 wheeled petrol / paraffin (gas / kerosine) wheeled trator, A 30TD diesel crawler, and a Ransomes MG6 crawler.I also have a 1946 Field Marshall contractors model.
As you say JM, many of us have varied collections.