BMB President
John
copied the history from a Tractor site and see they were into small
sizes. Funny that there was so little demand, small tractors are now to
be seen everywhere.
I wonder if these were the same Brockhouse that built the automatic
transmission for Crossley vehicles. Anyone out there know something?
John T
In addition to the information below, in the business web that saw
people move from one company to another, Thomas Hampson who was one of
the founders of Vulcan Motors & Engineering of Southport. Although he
left the company around 1916, he later joined Brockhouse Engineering and
it was this company that then bought the Southport factory of Vulcan,
which had moved to Maidstone on its take over by Tilling Stevens.
B.M.B. President Tractors
The B.M.B. President was the largest tractor in the B.M.B. range it was
manufactured by Brockhouse Engineering at Southport between 1950 and 1956.
Brockhouse Engineering were already well known for the two-wheeled JAP
engine powered B.M.B Cult-Mate, Hoe-Mate, and Plow-Mate garden tractors
originally made in the 1930's by British Motor Boats of London and Later
of Banbury.
In 1954 a vineyard version of the B.M.B. President was introduced, sadly
by that time sales of the B.M.B. President and other small tractors were
in decline and production ceased in 1956.
A later version of the B.M.B. President tractor made by H. J. Stockton
of London was exhibited at the 1957 Smithfields Show, it is not known if
any were sold.
B.M.B. President tractors were powered by the four cylinder Morris 8
side valve engine. This was essentially the same unit which powered the
Morris Minor up to 1952. The bore and stroke were 57 x 90 mm cubic
capacity 918.6 cc Horsepower rated at 10 h.p.
Peter Williamson
Crossley. The device was developed by another Southport company,
Turbo-Transmitters Ltd. The Crossley book by Eyre, Heaps and Townsin
records that both companies were set up by ex-Vulcan employees at the
time of the TS Motors (formerly Tilling-Stevens) takeover in 1938.
Peter W