The Sheppard Diesel

摘要

The world wide tractor shortages, which occurred immediately following the end of World War II, opened windows of opportunity for newcomers to the arena. Entrepreneurs, often with little or no tractor experience, rushed through engineering drawings and launched a variety of new tractors into the market place. Often these were poorly designed and endured only until the traditional manufacturers were once again able to come on stream with volume production. But a few of these opportunistic tractors were in fact well conceived arid performed reliably. This is evidenced today by the lineage of those which remain in production.