vickers vigor

Pictures is needed to give any opinion but maybe it,s an AC.

im not sure but if you mean allis chalmers i don't think so unless they put extra boggies and vickers plates on them

i think i know what it is i just cant figure out what to pay for the silly thing and why its in kansas

all i know is its in nonrunning condition but the machine is complete

is it like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpfqK-9x9h4

yes its very similar except there is a winch on the back and more space on the frame between fuel tank and winch

If you would like to see a promotional film of the Vickers in action in 1954 you can download a copy that I have at host site at the link below,when the first page opens choose the Free user option,another page opens with the seconds counting down,when zero is reached the download button appears,once downloaded it will playback full screen with sound using Windows Media Player.
Enjoy
AJ
I have removed the link due to misuse

hello ,a magazine story to read with some info but no production figures ,bruce oz




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Hi, Kansasdog.
MANY years ago now, I posted some photos of a Vickers hydraulic dozer on a forum. Within a day or so, a guy had posted a query wanting to know where it was so that he could go and beat it to death with a big stick. It appears that he had been stuck with the job of repairing a heap of them on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme in New South Wales, DowNunder, back in the late 1950's-early '60's

If you could keep master clutches and transmissions in them, they apparently didn't make a bad drawn scraper tug. I'm told that as a dozer they were almost as much use a breast pocket in a G-string.

The above is only what I have been told but I don't see very many brand new Vickers crawlers around these days. May I rest my case?

If you choose to buy it and restore and show it, I think it would be a fairly safe bet that you will never find yourself swamped with other Vickers crawlers at any show that you take it to. LOL.

We had about 22 - 23 imported for large civil works in the mid-1950s.
As Deas correctly states they were a good scraper tow tractor but a fairly useless dozer due in part to the unusual undercarriage.
They were a bit weak in the back end but were most notable for being able to shed their tracks in spectacular fashion at speed or in a turn !😮
Powered by Rolls-Royce, a C6NFL in-line 6 cylinder, a pretty reliable engine.

But wait...there's more.!!
Vickers also manufactured a smaller version known as the VIKON which was produced in small numbers before Vickers exited the earthmoving business altogether in 1962

Could your find be one of these?

This picture is from those posted by Painter from the tractor show in Fairview, OK. This tractor is a regular at the show, as it has been there for many years.

Since these were made in OKC, the mystery tractor you found in Kansas, may well be one of these.


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