Ideal Agricultural Motor Co

of High Road, Wembley

c.1912 Introduced the Ideal tractor. The tractor had a 24 HP engine and had a number of features which made it complicated to use and expensive to purchase. It had a manually controlled differential lock that allowed the driver to direct the power through the left or right wheel only according to soil conditions and traction requirements. The driving wheels were fitted with spade lugs which were attached to a cam which retracted them automatically, thereby preventing a build-up of mud in resistant soil conditions. The tractor had a frame attached to the rear on which implements were mounted. and this acted as a hinge point and allowed the implement to be raised about the ground during transportation or during headland turns. The lift mechanism, powered by the tractor engine, consisted of a cable attached to the frame of the implement.

1913 Francis Mark Waller, managing director of the company, patented "Improvements in Mechanically-propelled Ploughs."

1913 Exhibited an agricultural motor with a 35 horse-power petrol engine and road wheels which move in and out as the wheels revolve.

Presumably the manufacture and sale of the Ideal tractor was then taken over by Bumsted and Chandler

1916 Removed from the register of companies

By 1917 Mr Waller was in Stafford; his patent on "Improvements in and relating to Mechanical Tractors for Ploughs and other Agricultural Implements" made no reference to the company.

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