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kiwi071 · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:37 am Post subject: GMC Samson

more from the Blenhiem vintage tractor an old girl here Cool

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John(IN) · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:04 pm Post subject:

That sure is an old one Very Happy

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pudding · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:15 am Post subject: the slieve grip

kinda rare, a american GM built thing wasn't it, thought there was only 23 of them in the world (well the first model they built anyway

i do know of one in scotland, was told there were 2 or 3 in NZ too
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bushy65 · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:55 am Post subject:

Never seen that one before, thanks Thumbs Up

AC 1 · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject:

Originally built by the Samson Tractor Co. and later taken over by General Motors. I know of 7 of these tractors in the South Island.

kiwi071 · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 8:04 am Post subject: samson

The Samson tractor co started in1898 and was in the owner's hand's
until GMC bought him out in 1916 they tried to build a tractor to challenge
Ford but they could not match Fords price and it folded in 1919 I read it
cost GMC $20,000,000 all up the only thing was a factory to build chevs Whew

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jdcrawler · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

Do you know if this has the "sieve-grip" wheels on it?
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kiwi071 · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: Samson

Ray it has as far as I know it had "sieve grip" wheels as it had sieve grip
written all over it,I have found out there are two working Samson's in
North Canterbury with in 150 miles of where I live I shall try to get some
photo's of them. Cool

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AC 1 · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:45 pm Post subject:

Here is photos of 2 other Samson Sieve Grips in NZ.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j244/roscoe10/OTHER%20TRACTOR%20MAKES/SAMSON10-25SIEVEGRIP.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j244/roscoe10/OTHER%20TRACTOR%20MAKES/1918GMCSAMSONSIEVEGRIP.jpg

The top pic is of of a model 10-25
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Red Kiwi · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:51 pm Post subject:

nicely restored
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