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Ronaldson Bros & Tippett of Ballarat in Victoria

Ronaldson-Tippett tractor from company product line c 1927

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The Ronaldson brothers started to produce farm machinery in 1903, Jack Tippett joined them in 1905. They produced some of Australia's earliest internal combustion engines including the Austral brand, by the early 1920's they had produced over 4000 engines. They experimented with tractors as early as 1910 but it was not until the mid 1920's that they introduced their Super Drive tractor.(see story on the Aussie Tractor Page, link below) They also imported the Wisconsin engines and later made them under license, they produced a lot of engines for WW2 and by the end of the war were Australia's largest engine manufacturer. They ceased making tractors in the late 1930's and continued making engines until 1972.

Reference: The Aussie Tractor Page

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Ronaldson-Tippett Spraying Plants from Company Cat c 1927.

Spanners as listed in Ronaldson-Tippett Sprayplant book 113A 1945 © ozwrenches

Ronaldson-Tippett Sprayer with spanners F390 and F391 from the toolbox© ozwrenches

450-43 Spanner (similar to the Ronaldson-Tippett F-390) and a Myers Ashland Ohio - © J Hawking. If any reader can provide additional information or images please make contact via the link below

Ronaldson-Tippett DOE Spanner - © D Symons. If any reader can provide additional information or images please make contact via the link below

 

Ronaldson-Tippett Farm Pumper Manual - prepared to swap a photocopy of this manual for one we don't have.

Ronaldson-Tippett Factory Remains in 2009. © D Symons

Ronaldson-Tippett Cast Iron Spanner S44 - for very early R & T Shearing Plant, see below. © N Holloway

Ronaldson Tippett very early Shearing Plant. © N Holloway

R-T very early Shearing Plant - note it uses a lever to disengage rather than the more convenient throw clutch. © N Holloway

R-T very early Shearing Plant - note spanner (S44) fits the steering pivot nut, grinder and all other large nuts. © N Holloway


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