1947 David Brown Automotive VAK1

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1947 petrol tvo, restored, Road registered from new, Tax Exempt!, proper basic tractor, the first DB, doesn’t get better than this,
One for the purist/ collector
Absolutely stunning, 2 X previous owners from brand new!
Runs like a dream!
Briefly…
Before Aston Martin, David Brown built the VAK1 Cropmaster tractor
While flipping through The Times newspaper in late 1946, industrialist and engineer David Brown stumbled upon an ad selling a “High Class Motor Business.” Already steeped in the world of engineering and manufacturing, the Englishman’s interest was piqued. He visited the company headquarters only to discover that the company for sale was none other than Aston Martin. During Brown’s visit he had the chance to drive one of the company’s prototypes, and seeing great potential in it, he opted to purchase the company with which his name would forever be tied.

But before Brown swooped in to change the course of Aston Martin with the DB-line of sports and touring cars (to which he lent his initials), he manufactured tractors. He first worked in his grandfather’s David Brown Gear Company Ltd. (with whom he obviously shared a name), and by 1931 David had moved on from managing director and was running the family firm following his father Percy’s passing.

David Brown had been trying to break into motor vehicle manufacturing for some time, and the spark that made it happen was a partnership with engineer Harry Ferguson. Together they established the Ferguson-Brown Company in 1936, from which came the Ferguson-Brown tractor. Although the farm tractor was by all measures quite successful, Ferguson and Brown did not prove compatible, and after a bout of disagreements on design among other things, the partnership dissolved.