Evening All,
Many thanks fxxxrr for the photos. Very much appreciated! It’s by studying all the little differences between machines that we all have been able to get this far trying to piece the model history puzzle together. Your photos will help put a few more pieces in the puzzle.
Yup, I’m curious too, greenfielder, about the possibility that they went from square tube, to round, then back to square......
The model numbering idea is good....but I don’t think it’ll work. In the first 2 or 3 beautiful years of this company everything seemed so wonderfully organic. An almost endless number of changes (and often very little things) seem to make many of the surviving machines up to the later g65 powered drop chassis Reds seemingly unique in some way or other.
And I reckon it makes sense. A small company with a fledgling product and low production numbers would be constantly making changes and it would take 2 or 3 years to settle things down.
For example:
Front axle pivot went from triangular box section to SHS to flat plate to formed plate to nested on the yellows.
Decals Changed from the motif on Lewis’ machine, to the gear motif, to the squashed diamond motif.
Transmission cover went from two piece to one piece
Bonnet went from having a piano hinge to being hinged at the deck arm mount.
The first G65 machines had the straight chassis and went later to the dropped arrangement.
Etc, etc, etc!
.........and all in two or three years!
Perhaps a photo gallery/pictorial timeline of the changes as we understand them, that can be built and improved upon over time might work. I’ll give it some thought.....
Cheers,
P.S. There was at least one photo of a steel deck on an early machine that popped up. I’ll see if I can find it.
Last edited by prd; 09/01/20 09:27 PM.
