8159.8 hours did this tractor according to the dashboard. Knowing that this type was built in the first half of the 1970s, that would be about's 160-170 hours per year. That is very little for a tractor. Compare it to a car driving about's 2,500 kilometres a year. Probably, then, the tractor was only used for some light manual labour.
The dash board shows that this one is of the SAME brand and - although an Italian brand - was built in the UK.
The top half shows the engine's rpm for different purposes. As soon as you would start the engine, the white pointer turns anti-clockwise and indicates the engine speed, up to 2,500 rpm. The lower half shows the driving speed, up to 28 kilometres per hour. Pretty clever: using a single pointer to indicate both engine speed and driving speed.
To the left and right are what are probably warning lights: for the indicator, for the oil level and the like.
This picture fits seamlessly into a business environment in, say, mechanisation or mechanical engineering. But also in an environment where people like to make things measurable :)
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