Does Your Tractor Need More Power?

This will do the trick, if it will fit.

A classic from WWII. I hope it didn't come out of that car behind it.
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nice, lol it would take a big tractor to hold that engine, i do hope though that this one finds its way into a classic warbird, not blown to pieces on the pulling circuit, i just love the old planes

Whoa, I see the seller only has an 80% positive rating. Isn't that unusual?

I was thinking it could be shoehorned into my garden tractor.

That's what E.J. Potter, the Michigan Madman, used in his pullers years ago. He passed away in the last year or so.

I"ve seen them pull in the past when they could be bought for a song.

Dean

I just finished a book about WW II aircraft, that
said the Rolls-Royce/Merlin/Allison engine was
first subcontracted for United States manufacture
to "Packard", as Rolls-Royce thought that, of all
U.S.engine builders, only Packard had the
Precision machining to do the job.

Back when I worked on aircraft, there were a few of these that came through the shop. One I worked on had "Buick" cast on the block, and another had "Maytag" on it. Any factory that had the capability was building for the war. I would sure like to have one, but not for 29K.

Would go into a D-21 Allis chalmers, real nice!

did he ever pull at Louisvile Ky ... Serveral Allison motors tried to raise the roof off the place back then ,,,real crowd pleaser ..

If the book doesn"t contain a reference to Laverne Pentland. It missed a cornerstone of several WWII projects.
Laverne was raised on a farm near Dungannon Ontario. He was the general Foreman in a Detroit Michigan machine shop.
Laverne setup the Allison aircraft production line and horrified the British Rolls Royce engineers. Until that time each engine was custom built and individually hand fitted.
The Allison production line used " unskilled" labour to produce all components to such close specs that any component would interchange from any engine.
Laverne bid on and ran the project for the first 13 atomic Little Boy bombs. They wondered what Manhattan Project on the blueprints was all about. They machined all 13 gun barrel and plug assemblies.
Later on Lavern also bid and won contracts for the Mercury rocket program. In particular the support rings that held and aligned the rocket stages together.
One set of rings got ruined and the truck driver went AWOL when the hillbilly took a back road on the way from Detroit to Florida . The Hillbilly was going to show off the important load to friends and family he was hauling but bent the rings . He took off scared and was never seen or heard of again.

The Allison is a completely different engine from the Rolls Royce Merlin.

Sorry, my mistake. Was thinking Packard but typed Allison.

My favorite application for these engines was the unlimited hydroplanes. When they replaced the piston engines with the turbines I lost all interest. Your guts would shake when they went by you on the Detroit river at almost 150 mph.