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Ivel
Founded 1902
Founder(s) Dan Albone
Defunct 1921
Headquarters Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England
Products agriculture machinery tractor
Ivel Tractor 1902

Copy of old Ivel advert in a newspaper

The Ivel company of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England was founded in 1902 and started building tractors in 1903. The company was started by Dan Albone a Champion Bicyclist, after he obtained a patent for mounted implements, powered off the tractor by use of a pioneering power take off, (P.T.O.). The company is named after the River Ivel in Bedfordshire. The company built a 3 wheeled lightweight tractor powered by a 2 cylinder gasoline engine of 8 hp (6.0 kW), that sold for £300, a considerable sum in the 1900s.

The company continued building tractors to a virtually unchanged design till 1921, when it ceased trading, but Dan Albone suffered a premature death in 1906. The company imported Hart-Parr models into the Britain during WW I.

The tractors were exported to over 20 countries around the world.

Preservation[]

One Ivel tractor, AO 385, has been restored to full working order by John Moffit and it under took a road run from Lands End to John O'Groats for charity.

The tractor is featured in the book - The Ivel Story by John Moffitt published by Japonica Press, ISBN 0-9540222-6-2.

Events[]

Some of the events tractor AO 385 has been exhibited at include;

Pictures of the Ivel[]

Ivel Tractor no

The Famous Ivel Tractor no. 131 of 1903 formerly in the John Moffitt collection on display at a wet Newby Hall Vintage Gathering 2009

Ivel AO 385 working at Little Casterton 09 - IMG 2007

The Ivel working at Little Casterton 2009

Other surviving tractors[]

please add details of any other surviving examples here.

Reference[]

Classic Tractors of the World, By Nick Baldwin ISBN 0-89658-394-5

External links[]

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