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K.L. Bulldog Tractor
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The earlier production K.L. tractors looked exactly like this prized restoration owned by Gary Skinner of Guyra, NSW. Only later production had light orange wheels, and decals on the fuel tank and rear mudguards

September, 2008, marked 60 years since the first K.L. Bulldog tractor came off the production line at Springvale, Victoria.

 Announced to the public in late 1945, Kelly & Lewis formed “K.L. Tractors Ltd.” to manufacture a tractor ‘of similar pattern’ to the pre-War Lanz hot bulb ignition crude oil burning tractors, which Kelly & Lewis sold from 1934 until the outbreak of World War Two. The immediate post-War period saw the government of the time offer substantial ‘start-up funds and incentives’ to encourage local tractor production which, of course, were to be repaid when profits flowed again. 

Not wanting to split up all available machine/tools at its disposal, the go

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