This is an International B250, it’s had 3 previous owners the first being a Herefordshire small holder. For the last 5 years it’s been sat in a shed. Mechanically it’s in pretty good shape and fired up pretty straight away. It’s not been restored and hence has almost all the original parts.
The International B250 was built by the International Harvester Company of GB Ltd, at the Bradford works,England. The Bradford works was formerly the Jowett cars and van factory and also built the Bristol crawlers for a period.
The B-250 was introduced at the 1955 Royal Smithfield show and continued in production until 1961. From the serial number this one came off the production line in 1958.In all just over 30,000 were built unlike the Massey 35 where almost 400,000 were produced.
The B250 has a 30HP 4 cylinder indirect diesel engine, with glow plugs. There’s an indicator on the dashboard to show when the glow plugs are hot. Apparently it’s a notoriously difficult starter.
The brakes are quite unusual as you’ll see from the photos, not only are they disc brakes they’re mounted on their own drive shafts as opposed to the axle. They didn’t work at all before I stripped them down but they OK now.
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