vickers found in no mans land

kansasdog · Post #1 by **kansasdog** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 5:23 am

hello friends found a interesting piece of iron in the weeds in kansas the other day.
it is a vickers dozer i have exhausted all of the cat sights looking for informtion on this machine.

It looks identical to a vickers vigor on youtube

can anyone tell me how many of these machines where built and about what the value of a machine in restorable conditions would be.

and maybe the answer to the $1,000,000 dollar question, how did this beast wind up in the middle of the U.S.

any info would certainly be helpful

thanks

J.T. John

John Gaunt · Post #2 by **John Gaunt** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:04 am

Hi Jason,
I'm not an expert on Vickers by any means.
It was built from 1952 to 1961 as the Vickers VR 180 Vigor. Powered by a Rolls Royce 6 cyl diesel (C6 SFL) rated at 210 Hp.
Aparantly 889 were built.
There is an interesting article about them in the Crawler Tractor Scrapbook Part 2 by Richard H Robinson.
If there is any specific info you need I will see what I can do.

BulldozerD11 · Post #3 by **BulldozerD11** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 2:11 pm

Hi Kansasdog

Heres a Vickers at work a couple of weeks ago at Fred Knights working day in the UK.

kansasdog · Post #4 by **kansasdog** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:56 am

thanks guys for the information sounds like its something a persons had better pickup. what is the original color, this one is cat yellow but i also have a td14a thats been painted yellow also. I don't know why so many people think that a all dozers are suppose to be yellow

one more question are parts for the vigor available over there or are there parts tractors available

thanks

J.T. John

Post #5 by **Deas Plant** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 12:57 pm

Hi, Kansasdog.
Check my reply to your query over at ACMOC.

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