THE BIG LITTLE TRACTOR
60 YEARS OF THE INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER B-414
The International Harvester Company of Great Britain may have had its head office in London, but its manufacturing heartland was much further north, in East Yorkshire. With two factories in Doncaster and a third not far away in nearby Bradford, the company was busy building several tractor models in Britain as the Sixties came around.
Influence
Most of these tractor designs were of a very North American bent. The first British built International being a version of the Farmall M, the first of which left the Doncaster Wheatley Hall Road factory production line in September 1949. This would form the basis of a whole range of models over the next decade, including the popular BMD diesel version.
One “Americanism” that was not to
