Another one for you tractor enthusiasts.
While truck-testing in Germany last week one of our fellow journalists from sister magazine Commercial Motor came across this unusual three-wheeled tractor parked up against a fence on a redundant US Air Force base.
The name that appears on the bonnet is Pekazett.
Reliant's foray in the agriculture industry was short lived
With his usual tenacious investigative techniques The Black Sheep has discovered that back in 1965 a German construction manufacturer, Peschke, had been experimenting with the three-wheeled tractors and they began manufacturing this model – the Pekazett slope tractor UF 260 - in order to enter the field of specialist forestry tractors.
As far as I can tell the Pekazett doesn’t appear to have been a roaring success, but in the same year, Peschke and fellow German firm Bungartz formed a partnership to develop walk-behind cultivators from their new co-owned factory buidings in Hornbach (Saarland, Germany).
Presumably this marked the end of Peschke's foray into three-wheeled tractors, but if any of The Flock can expand on this dribble of history, email The Sheep …