Tractores agrícolas - Francia: libros - historia (1/3)

La nouvelle encyclopedie des tracteurs fabriqués en France

Esta nueva edición en color de la enciclopedia de tractores franceses repasa la historia de las máquinas agrícolas desde sus orígenes hasta la actualidad. La primera edición, publicada en 1998, incluía más de 200 marcas a partir de anuncios y revistas especializadas, convirtiéndose en una referencia para los aficionados.

El interés por la maquinaria antigua ha permitido descubrir muchas marcas artesanales, a menudo desconocidas y nunca publicitadas, conservadas por coleccionistas en toda Francia. Esta edición ampliada incluye más de cincuenta marcas nuevas y numerosas fotos inéditas, mostrando la creatividad de los diseñadores desde finales del siglo XIX hasta hoy.

El libro cubre grandes marcas francesas - Renault, Société française, Someca, Vendeuvre - así como fabricantes extranjeros en Francia, como Austin, Massey-Harris, International Harvester, Minneapolis-Moline, Case, Ferguson o Massey-Ferguson. También se incluyen marcas menos conocidas como Patissier Énergic, MAP, Sabatier Le Pratique, Sift, Champion, Labourier, Saint-Chamond, Latil, Babiole, Eco y Maci.

Finalmente, el libro rinde homenaje a los numerosos artesanos que construyeron tractores, a menudo de manera temporal, para satisfacer las necesidades de una agricultura en constante cambio. Esta edición ofrece una visión completa de este patrimonio mecánico único.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Christian Descombes
Presentación:	336 páginas, 31 x 23.5 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Francés
Editorial:	ETAI (F, 2012)
ISBN:	9782726895962

Tracteurs oubliés de nos campagnes 1919-1924

This second volume deals with French tractors and machines of all kinds that followed one another after 1918. In the aftermath of the Great War, in 1919, there was an explosion of models. Manufacturers had indeed gone very far in innovations, sometimes incredible...

The last chapter, devoted to "prototypes, small series and ephemeral tractors" is a perfect illustration of this! Competition between manufacturers was fierce, each had to find its specialty to survive...
Car manufacturers started manufacturing agricultural tractors: Renault, Peugeot, Citroën, Delahaye, De-Dion, D.F.P., Fiat, Austin...

Everyone will find what they are looking for in this reference book, progressing through the pages in the discovery of new models and the men who designed and built these tractors. The evolution of agricultural machinery is underway, the models follow one another.
Illustrated with more than 600 old documents, this work restores the history and atmosphere of the time.
The authors are all three farmers from Seine-et-Marne, motivated by the same passion. They collect old tractors of all kinds, old plows, brochures, etc.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Bernard Gibert, Marc Solvet, Philippe Abit
Presentación:	288 páginas, 31 x 23.5 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	350 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Francés
Editorial:	ETAI (F, 2010)
ISBN:	9782726894729

Tracteurs oubliés de nos campagnes 1896-1918

Relive the history of these old tractors that were first powered by petroleum products and not steam.
Before 1914, these tractors were often called "petrol-powered automobile tractors". First, there were all the derivatives of the various earth-digging machines: the rotary plough, the pickaxe, the motor-plough, the self-propelled plough, the cultivator, etc. Then came other machines powered by cables: the winch tractor, the tractor-tow. Then came the automobile plough, the motor-plough, the automobile hoe, etc. And then the crumbler, the polycultor as well as the tracked tractor, the articulated tractor and the vineyard tractor.

At that time, tractors had as many different shapes and sizes as possible, many were mounted on three wheels. Some tractors looked like real monsters, others were very small. The main bases of mechanics were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century. The First World War having devastated the soils, the re-cultivation of abandoned lands or those located on the sites of combat favored the development of exploitation equipment.

Through a magnificent collection of more than 550 unpublished period photos, discover for the first time these fantastic machines and tractors mounted on iron wheels. Also discover the work of men, the main players in the development of machinery, who are not forgotten in this book either.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Bernard Gibert, Marc Solvet, Philippe Abit
Presentación:	288 páginas, 31 x 23.5 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	560 fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Francés
Editorial:	ETAI (F, 2008)
ISBN:	9782726888032

Attelées

How to promote the magnificent French horse-drawn heritage, witness to the needs, tastes and know-how of an era? By revealing its wealth and past prestige!
This beautiful, highly illustrated book is a rich inventory of around thirty families of vehicles and their teams, chosen to be typical of a region and an activity. A real dive into the hard-working France of yesteryear!

Part of the book is devoted to rural vehicles and teams: farm carts, wine carts, farm dumpers, trolleys, triqueballes, hand trucks, logging trucks, flour trucks, livestock trucks, planters, traveling sales cars.

A second part focuses on urban vehicles and teams: trucks, sales cars, removal cars, haquets, brewers', lemonade and wine merchants' cars, ice boxes, milkmen's cars, market gardeners' cars, coal miners' cars, plasterers' cars, construction site vehicles (tar spreaders, rollers, paving and sand dumpers, stone dumpers, etc.), road maintenance and public hygiene (torpedo boats, sweepers, road workers' dumpers, rubbish and bulky waste removal, emptying cars), exceptional convoys.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Etienne Petitclerc
Presentación:	341 páginas, 30 x 21.5 x 2.5 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Francés
Editorial:	Editions France Agricole (F, 2016)
ISBN:	9791090213548

L'aube du tracteur en France - catalogue complet de tous les tracteurs agricoles (1917)

In 1917, while the Great War was still devastating our countryside and France was still a country whose rural population used only human labor and animal traction, an extraordinary work appeared: the complete catalog of all agricultural tractors and automotive equipment allowing motorized cultivation: it was a vision of the future made accessible to all.
No fewer than 177 different machines were thus offered to farmers, who, once peace returned, would have to imagine their traditional activity differently.

Today, more than a century after its publication, this work of synthesis has lost none of its documentary interest and has taken on a historical value of its own. The enthusiast of agricultural machinery will discover the incredible diversity of tractors and agricultural machines already available at the time.

The majority of these are machines from across the Atlantic, with famous names (Case, International Harvester, Caterpillar, etc.) or lesser-known ones; British models are also present (Fowler, Aveling & Porter, etc.), while a few names from continental Europe stand out, such as our national Vierzon and the Lanz "across the way". This is truly the Dawn of the tractor in France. Where it all started.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	C. Chauveau
Presentación:	272 páginas, 23 x 15 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	185 fotos en b/n
Idioma:	Francés
Editorial:	Histoire & Collections (F, 2007)
ISBN:	9782352500605

Les ancêtres de nos tracteurs 1900-1935

An unpublished work! It presents, from very rare documents, 100 brands and 200 models built and sold from 1900 to 1935. Forgotten and incredible machines!
Very few collectors have these period brochures. They bring back to life a period of major technological evolution that profoundly changed the lives of farmers.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Bernard Gibert
Presentación:	383 páginas, 30.5 x 21.5 x 3 cm, tapa dura
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado
Idioma:	Francés
Editorial:	Editions France Agricole (F, 2016)
ISBN:	9791090213562

Tracteurs

How can we think of the contemporary agricultural world without imagining a tractor, often brightly colored, boldly crossing a freshly plowed field... An evocation closely linked to our landscapes. Without a doubt, the tractor revolutionized the French rural world at the dawn of the 1950s, pushing the draft horse that then took on the work of the land towards the stable: it was the advent of the power of the mechanical horse.

This arrival quickly turned into a revolution: fewer arms, more worked surfaces, a race for increasing productivity. Initially small in size, imported from across the Atlantic, the machines gained in size and power, spearheading galloping mechanization; our industry then produced them in large numbers.

Those familiar with the rural world see again the Farmall from Mc Cormick-Deering, the "little grey" from Ferguson, the valiant Pony from Massey-Harris and the Renault D22 at work in the French countryside...
At the end of the 1970s, 95% of French farms were equipped with at least one tractor, marking a trend that is still strong today.

Detalle del libro

Autor:	Francis Dréer
Presentación:	285 páginas, 29.5 x 24.5 x 2 cm, tapa blanda
Ilustración:	ricamente ilustrado con fotos en b/n y color
Idioma:	Francés
Editorial:	Terres Editions (F, 2019)
ISBN:	9782355302909