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Super Tractors Farmyard Monsters from around the World by Peter Henshaw

There are supercars, superbikes... and supertractors. With four-wheel drive and massive turbo-diesel engines mustering 500bhp or more, they are true performance machines. Packed with technical information and glorious colour photography, here is the full story of these agricultural giants, from their origins in the American Mid-West in the late 1950s to the current crop of US and European-made types.

Key content

The Steiger brothers built a new type of tractor with four-wheel drive, pivot steering and a big two-stroke diesel engine.
A make-by-make survey of recent and modem supertractors.
Technical developments in engine design, transmission, suspension, electronics and satellite navigation.
Innovations from Case-IH, Caterpillar (rubber tracks), Deutz, Fendt.
JCB (high-speed), John Deere (suspension), Massey Ferguson (electronics), Mercedes-Benz (systems), Renault (cab design), Valtra.

Code No. 011724, 160 pages, ISBN 1844253279, $49.50

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Tractor

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