Ingleridge Estate

David Brown Tractors

 

David Brown's involvement in farm machinery began in 1936 when the company,
then a subsidiary of the local family firm David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield)
Ltd., collaborated with Harry Ferguson in the manufacture of the legendary
Ferguson-Brown Tractor. Built
initially in the corner of the David Brown gear factory, the Ferguson-Brown
model was the world's first production tractor to be equipped with hydraulic
lift and converging 3-point linkage; a revolutionary concept which soon
became a fundamental part of farm tractor design the world over.

 

In 1942 Brown started building a tracklayer version, the DB4. The DB4 was built for the army engineers and solved some of the problems found with the VTK, and got round an embargo on imported machines for military use. It was powered by a 38 h.p. Dorman diesel and a five speed gearbox. The DB4 was replaced in 1950 by the Trackmaster 30.