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The One and Only Wallis Bear in Ohio 2015

Give or take a decade or two I saw this tractor at county fairs. It has been housed and not running for two to three years. I looked up kin folk of owner last Friday and found there is and effort to get it running and take it to shows. I hopefully  will be invited to work area and will post pictures if ownership permits. One comment made was Original Color scheme?
Decided to ask the "experts" on Wallis for any input that may help the cause.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4j9OQOyOHo

In case you have never seen "her", try above site.
I just redid the site as didn't work for me. (wrong letter) If this doesn't work just look up "Wallis Bear Tractor" on Youtube
Bob White

RE:The One and Only Wallis Bear in Ohio 2015

Bob,

Interesting you talk about the decades passing and the connections to the Wallis Bear.

It was 1992 and my very first trip across the pond for the 150th Anniversary of J I Case (Threshing Machine Company), the first show I visited was Portland Indiana who had a great feature for Case which I greatly enjoyed, but the icing on the cake for me was seeing the Wallis Bear for the first time, coming from our small island of rural England I had no idea how large that tractor is, it was a pleasure to just sit on it and admire the size, including how small the steering wheel is for such a large tractor! But then with power steering you don't need the big wheel.

Further trips across in 1997 saw it at the 150th Anniversary of M-H show in Wisconsin, the photo below shows the three UK collectors at the event, John Caudwell of Scotland now deceased, myself and John Farnworth. looking at these photo's we have certainly changed a bit over the decades.

1998 we visited the Scmidt family and Gene pictured with Fred gave us a superb morning, talking about their Wallis collection and sharing their stories, both John and I got to drive the Bear that day and that was something special leaving some long standing memories. Fred cranked it once and it started right up and ran so sweet.
Gene was a super gentleman who loved his Wallis tractors, he even gave me a NOS vaporisor for a 20-30 when we looked over his large piles of spares, it still sits on my shelf and always think of him when I look it over, it's too good to just put on a tractor.

Keep the Wallis memories rolling and well done Bob for reminding me to talk about them, keep a close watch on the Wallis Bear.

Malcolm.
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RE:The One and Only Wallis Bear in Ohio 2015

Malcolm,
I will remind Fred of your viewing and driving the "Bear". Great history and photo's.
I would expect the Schmidt family to know about Wallis paint schemes, but the extended kin folk I met ask about colors. Were they all grey and red like most of Fred's lineup?
I look forward to posting new pictures and info. Looks like I need to see if entire line up is still under Fred's control.
Regards,
Bob