BC Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Last night I was reading the sale reports and see Victor Mathers sold his recently restored David Brown 50D for well an astonishing £ 43,000. Undergoing restoration in false plates at the 2009 Oldmeldrum rally The finished article at Lanark in September 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB1 Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 looked quite good in grey but stunning in red , what hp is that bill ,? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 Well I'm I no authority on Davie Browns Marcus but I suspect being a 50D it is 50 HP. I know Tim aka powerrabbit on here is a DB authority so he will probably be able to advise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerrabbit Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 50hp is correct. Made between 1956 and 1958 and the majority were exported to America, South Africa and Australia. Now, and over the past few years, many that have survived are being brought back to the U.K. because not that many were sold in the 'home market' as they had no hydraulics and were basically haulage tractors and used for belt pulley work on threshing. in total there were only 1260 units produced and were officially known as the 'Cropmaster 50'. There were also a number of tracklayers produced from 1952 to 1965, the ealy D.B. crawler tractors had a petrol kerosene engine, the 30T, with the later ones having the diesel, 30TD. These had the 30D engine. 1667 of the tracklayer crawlers were produced, the agricultural spec one being the 50TD and the industrial version, the 50ITD. The 40TD tracklayer, which looked much the same, used the 950 diesel engine of 42.5hp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted October 31, 2009 Author Share Posted October 31, 2009 Thanks Tim I knew you would know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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