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Unknown Vacuum brake mechanism


Kean Thompson

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It could have other, non-automotive applications as well. Here's a similar unit used in the overly-complicated and troublesome engine exhaust powered vacuum  system  that International Harvester foisted upon post-war farmers in an effort to automate their small Farmall series tractors lift mechanism in a feeble attempt to compete with the far superior Ferguson System featured on Ford tractors of the same era*.

 

 

*Disclaimer: I collect Ford AND IHC Farmall tractors

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