In response to my article on Japanese compact tractors in the previous issue of this magazine, Peter Robinson from Victoria sent me copies of several early Japanese tractor brochures. One brochure covers a small Komatsu machine, marketed in 1964 as a ‘tractor’ by the Australian distributors, A.V. Page Pty Ltd - a firm better known as a manufacturer of tractor slashers. 

The unusual little Komatsu weighed 900lbs (408 kg) and was powered by a sin