The Motor Car and Agriculture.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 3, 2 January 1906, Page 55

The Motor Car and Agriculture.

The application of the motor to farming could , not have been long delayed. To Mr. Dan Albone, of Bigglesw ade, Bedfordshire, is the credit, so far as England is concerned, of stepping into the breach, and bringing the farmer and the motormaker into mutually beneficial acquaintance. Mr Albone calls his invention the " Ivel Agricultural Motor," and it is a provisionally protected patent Among its many claims to praise is the fact that it can be adapted to use either in the field or m the barn In the field, it can be attached for traction purposes to the plough, to the mower reaper, binder, and other field machines ; in the barn, the petrol motor, for the time stationary, can be used tor cutting chaff, pulping roots, grinding corn, and a variety of other useful purposes. More than this, the " Ivel " can be used as a road traction engine, for the carnage of produce to market. Mr. Albone himself uses his " Ivel " motor for a similar purpose Finding ,m common with most country automobihsts, a difficulty m obtaining petroleum, owing to the regulations of the railway companies, he has been sending his agricultural motor, towing a couple of vans, to London to fetch spirit. Biggleswade, by the way, is forty-five miles from London, and the travelling advertisment has been a capital one for the inventor. — Magazine of Commerce.