In the early 1900s, the English engineering company John Fowler & Co predicted the demise of steam engines and, betting on the future, sought to develop oil-powered tractors. One of them ...

1850s: John Fowler and Company – Steam Tractor Inventors tinkered with the idea of a steam-powered tractor throughout the 19th century, but the British Engineer John Fowler is credited with ...

It is dubbed The Lion, and it is one of just four showman’s road locomotives built back in the 1930s by British-based John Fowler ... was a type of steam-powered tractor head used by fairgrounds ...

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Mr Vernon, who died in 2021, was a farmer who amassed more than 200 steam engines and vintage tractors during his ... One of the top sellers was the pair of Fowler BB1 ploughing engines named ...

THIS weekend, a steam plough which 175 years ago turned its inventor into a “worldwide celebrity” will be in action at one of the region’s biggest steam fairs. Also present at the Hunton ...