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The New Orleans Herald., December 20, 1917, Page 4, col. 4. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064020/1917-12-20/ed-... has a small piece mentioning that Secretary Josephus Daniels of the Navy had been to Quantico and seen some new tank style tractors for guns. So this may have been taken in association with that visit.

Thanks swanq. It does look like this is a version of an early tank. We'll hold off on Quantico identification until more information comes in.

A Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, it says on it.

Not headed for the Steam Rally, anyway; that only started in 1965.

It was me suggested it! I love a good tractor. You can take the girl out of Waterford, but not Waterford out of the girl... :)

derangedlemur The steam rally was my first thought.

From the Beamish Museum on Flickr Ransomes Sims & Jefferies 6NHP traction engine ‘Northern Star’

The first single-cylinder Marshall tractor to be introduced was the Marshall 15/30 in 1930. It had an 8-inch (200 mm) bore with a 10-inch (250 mm) stroke (= 8.237 liters) and the maximum speed was 550 r.p.m., or 9.1666 revolutions per second. In 1932 the 15/30 was upgraded to become the Marshall 18/30. This model featured the same bore and stroke dimensions but the maximum r.p.m. was increased and the tractor's transmission was heavily modified. The Field-Marshall tractors were commonly used to pull agricultural machinery such as threshing machines from site to site. Once in place, the Field-Marshall would be used as the powerplant for the threshing machine, the tractor's belt pulley coupled by a large flat drive belt to the threshing machine's pulley. Field-Marshalls with tracks were produced under the Fowler brand name, being converted in the Fowler factory at Leeds. The first was designated the "Fowler VF", later ones were "VFA"s. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Marshall#:~:text=The%20first%...