Monarch Tractor Models

PAUL TOFIELD continues his tale about the growth of Allis-Chalmers in construction equipment. Last month he wrote about the Monarch Tractor Corporation, which it bought very soon after reviving its ailing unprofitable agricultural tractor division. Now he looks at Monarch’s models

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A selection of tractors has survived into preservation in the United States and Canada. There is a wide range of colour schemes to be seen, and a series of different model designations. Perhaps this is a result of the Monarch tractor being built under four different ownerships in 13 years and the regular re-financing of the brand. Add in the possibility that there was more than one production site and different engines appear to have been fitted into the same chassis design: a model history is hard to determine.

Monarch tractors were considered reliable and there is a record of an early machine still working in the late 1940s.

The 1916 Lightfoot

At 1250kg, this small crawler was listed with a four-cylinder Kermath engine in 1918. It may not have survived past 1918 and was targeted at small family farms. Rated at 6-12, 6 drawbar/12 belt horsepower initially, the model continued as the 7-12 and was still advertised in mid-1919.

The Neverslip Range