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Graham/Joe/Tom,

I hope that sometime soon you three will get your heads together and produce a small brochure, or something like that, to record all these details of the Wallis tractors that you are revealing.  It would be a most useful document and a good historical record.

John

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Hi John, it would be nice to have a record of all these ideas we have about the wallis and early massey tractors but the problem with putting it on paper is that we don't really know all the facts and for sure there would be misinformation just because we have not and probably will never know all the answers to our questions. Someday we might be able to just type out most of our general ideas and info that seems to be fact.

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John,
We should definitely be recording our observations, it would a shame to learn all this stuff and then it be forgotten. The problem is we are finding new stuff all the time so if anything were printed it would soon need updating, there was a couple more things observed on the last two 20-30s I hauled home.

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Here's an interesting Wallis.
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Graham

Looks like you've been to another auction, I hope these two followed you home and didn't go for scrap. Isn't every day you get a chance to own a lever steer Wallis..  Don't know why there are so many Wallis tractors with cobbled steering, If they are properly greased they turn like power steering, can't figure out why so many people have had problems with them.

Joe

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These two were at an auction last year and they didn't follow me home, a young fellow at the auction seem to think that Wallis tractors were very rare. He bought the one with the lever steering just to get the axle for the other one as he didn't think he would find one anywhere with them being so rare.
I realy wanted the lever steering one as it had been owned by a Norwegian farmer in Saskatchewan who had used it that way for many years and I thought the rarest of the two having lever steering.

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I have been talking to the fellow now owns these two Wallis's and I am pleased to hear they are now oiled up and in a shed.

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Joe,

It does seem like there were problems with the early steering boxes on Wallis tractors. I have just been looking at this picture of the Eclkel's 20-30 and it looks like the steering box  and axle has been replaced with the later type steering box and it has the latest style front wheels. But I think the main problem with the steering has been lack of maintanence.

Graham.
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I have always wanted a Wallis Cub.  At last my time has come!  I picked this one up out of Russia with a 1923 vintage.

Joe and Tom - how many went to Russia?

John
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John,

That is a very nice stamp I have seen pictures of them before but don't have one in my collection yet, Good find and now you can say you have a Cub in your collection.. As far as Wallis Cubs going to Russia here is a picture of at least one I believe made it there.

Next thing, Have you ever seen or heard of an Electric Wallis? Here is A picture of one and if it works a link to the story on it. It was very short lived because of the week frame without the engine being mounted in it to keep it from twisting. I like how they took the front steering mechanism off and mounted it on the right side of the tractor, never seen that before. 

Click link below.

http://www.guardianonline.co.nz/heritage/electric-tractors-were-short-lived/

Joe
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