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1944 - Old machinery

1944 - Old machinery

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1944 - Old machinery

The Transplanters and Potato Planters were produced as a direct request from the horticultural farmers in the west of Cornwall, to relieve the backbreaking job of planting by hand. 

Having lost the design of the previous Potato Planter to Dennings, Tom Teagle set about producing a much smaller and manoeuvrable planter to replace it. The important feature of the new planter was that the main chassis was designed to be totally universal. On it could be built either potato planters in early or maincrop configurations, or transplanters for cabbage and broccoli. 

Interchangeable parts throughout the range allowed the machine to be manufactured more economically than its competitors. The machines found a ready worldwide market, and could be found planting tobacco in Central Africa as well as cabbage in Australia.