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Baynards Park, Cranleigh, Surrey WWI, ref-16 - Alfred Bartlett is shown on second trailer.
Tractor shown is an International Titan 10/20, built in the USA and was one of 3000 shipped to the UK during WWI.
The sacks on the wagons would have contained corn and when filled with wheat weighed 2¼ cwt [about 112kg}. They would have been loaded by hand,
a task that would take 3 men to load on a wagon this high. When offloading they would be carried by one man on his back, often up steps into granaries.
The sacks themselves were usually hired from firms such as the Heald Sack Company in Godalming. Their building was still standing in the 1970s.
These early tractors were expensive and probably beyond the reach of smaller tenant farmers. It may well have been owned by a local threshing contractor.
Trevor Wood
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