Taurus photo hopefully!

[taurus MK1]

Hi, my first attempt of posting a photo. This is my faithful Bristol Taurus MK1 on its usual pollarding of willows. I have had her for many a year, the tracks are shot, but everthing else functions fine. I serviced her up when i first had her, all filters,oils etc. The Boughton winch comes into its own pulling timber across a stream. I think she would be 1963/64, anyway hope this is of interest.

Cheers John

[Nick Drew]

Great stuff John !!

Great to see you posting the pld piccies !!

Thanks for sharing with us

Nick

[martyn williams]

Thats a great little loader you have there John
Martyn

[RichardJW~]

Cracking little machine there John.

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't they have a Perkins P3 engine?
In the early '70s a contractor cleared a lot of gorsey/rough ground for my father with a Taurus but his had a blade also had 3pt. links & a PTO to drive a Bush-hog.

[taurus MK1]

Hi Richard, Happy New Year,

Engine fitted in the Taurus MK1/MK2 was the faithful Perkins 3.152TA. The agricultural version had a shorter track frame which is the norm, and 3 point linkage and PTO was offered as optional eqpt.on the ag version. I know of a very nice ag version not far from here, but it has no linkage.

[RichardJW~]

By any chance have you got any photos of Ag. specs with blades?....if I remember right his had a single blade ram mounted on the top centre of the nose/rad. cone......and I am sure it had a kind of cab too.
One of my biggest regrets is not taking more photos when I was younger!!!

[XS650]

Caravan site i used to visit had a tidy little Bristol Taurus dozer with neat little cable controlled towed scraper (Onions?) about 3 or 4 cu yds.The owner had shifted 1000s of cube with it as his site consisted of a deep railway cutting he had bought and then cut off the sides into steps for the caravans. Brave man.

[taurus MK1]

Reply to Richards question ref.pictures of dozer, i only have picture as in org.literature,now thats going to take a while to fathom out how to get it on here, so bear with me. What i can tell you from the brochure for a dozer,is it has two rams that are mounted on the cast nose cone. The cab as per usual was a tin box!!!


Cheers John Ps.someone else must own a Taurus MK1???????????

[Martyn Henley]

Does this help John ?

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Martyn

[taurus MK1]

Just the job Martyn