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These prices reflected the advanced features and performance capabilities of the models, making them a solid investment for farmers seeking reliable and durable tractors for a range of agricultural tasks. Impact on the Agricultural Industry. The Same Explorer series played a key role in the modernization of mid-sized farms in the 1980s and ...
In the late 1970s, Ertl offered a series of plastic model kits of heavy commercial trucks, over-the-road trailers, tractors, plows, and farm wagons. Although these kits never achieved the hoped-for popularity, they led to the acquisition of AMT. In 1983, AMT was purchased by Ertl from Lesney, and renamed AMT/Ertl.
The model car "kit" hobby began in the post World War II era with Ace and Berkeley wooden model cars. Revell pioneered the plastic model car in the late 1940s with their Maxwell kit, which was basically an unassembled version of a pull toy. Derek Brand, from England, pioneered the first real plastic kit, a 1932 Ford Roadster for Revell.
The Chipperfield's Circus Horse Transporter (1130) was released in October 1962 featuring the new Bedford TK tractor unit and an articulated trailer with models of circus horses, and in June 1964 the Bedford TK tractor unit was adapted with a large high-sided open top 'wooden' box as the Giraffe Transporter (503) complete with models of a ...
A new plant was opened in 1956; in 1957, in the wake of the SAME Sametto, the company introduced the Lamborghinetta (weighing 1000 kg, with a 22 HP two-cylinder engine, and sold at a price of around one million lire). In 1962, with its "2R DT" model, Lamborghini produced a series of four-wheel-drive tractors with air-cooled engines.
Aluminum Model Toys (AMT) is an American brand of scale model vehicles. The former manufacturing company was founded in Troy, Michigan, in 1948 by West Gallogly Sr. AMT became known for producing 1:25 scale plastic automobile dealer promotional model cars and friction motor models, and pioneered the annual 3-in-1 model kit buildable in stock, custom, or hot-rod versions.
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With over 290,000 sold by the end of its original production in 1952, it was a popular tractor that used Deere & Company's two cylinder design. [2] [3] [4] Early tractors burnt distillate, a petroleum byproduct similar to kerosene, [5] which became a selling point owing to the fuel's low price. Deere & Company's two cylinder design strung from ...