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Gascoignes vacuum power set (mobile milking unit)

Gascoignes (Reading) · United Kingdom · 1965–now

Vacuum pump with sanitary trap and silencer on a base plate bolted by four bolts to the front bumper, driven from the front of the crankshaft through a starting-handle dog, dog clutch, propshaft and countershaft pulley (the same crankshaft power linkage used by the capstan winch). It runs at 1,400 rpm with the engine on fast idle and supplies vacuum for bucket milkers at shows or in the field, small milking bails, slurry tank emptying and vacuum shearing.

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Gascoignes vacuum power set (mobile milking unit)
Gascoignes (Reading) Ltd leaflet 1965, scanned by Hermen Vlothuizen · all-rights-reserved · source
1965–nowMADE—PERIOD PRICEVery rareRARITY2LAND ROVER MODELS2SOURCES

Description

Vacuum pump with sanitary trap and silencer on a base plate bolted by four bolts to the front bumper, driven from the front of the crankshaft through a starting-handle dog, dog clutch, propshaft and countershaft pulley (the same crankshaft power linkage used by the capstan winch). It runs at 1,400 rpm with the engine on fast idle and supplies vacuum for bucket milkers at shows or in the field, small milking bails, slurry tank emptying and vacuum shearing.

Brochure shows a Series IIA 88; suits any bucket milker

Rarity. Dairy accessory from a 1965 approved-implement leaflet; no surviving Land Rover installation found for sale in this research.

Record: 2 sources; designation recorded; no price recorded.

Specification

MAKERGascoignes (Reading) Ltd, Reading, United Kingdom
DESIGNATION / PARTGascoignes Vacuum Power Set (leaflet L.R.231)
MADE1965–now
RARITYVery rare — Dairy accessory from a 1965 approved-implement leaflet; no surviving Land Rover installation found for sale in this research.
PUMP SPEED RPM1400
ENGINE SPEED RPM600-700 fast idle
DRIVEfront of crankshaft, dog clutch, prop shaft, countershaft and pulley
MOUNTINGfront bumper, four bolts
POWER SET WEIGHT LB112
CONVERSION UNIT WEIGHT LB56
EXTRAS REQUIREDnone; hand throttle optional on petrol

Fitment

Brochure shows a Series IIA 88; suits any bucket milker

Imagery

Gascoignes vacuum power set (mobile milking unit)
all-rights-reserved · Gascoignes (Reading) Ltd leaflet 1965, scanned by Hermen Vlothuizen · landrover.vlothuizen.nl · reference only, not reproduced under licence

Sources

landrover.vlothuizen.nl/show/list/7046-1.htmltractors.fandom.com/api.php?action=parse&page=List_of_Land_Rover_approved_conversions&prop=wikitext&format=jsonEvery source above was fetched and read when the record was made.