953 nut 55,218 #1 Posted May 28 TRACTOR TRIVIA and other interesting stuff For the past few days we have covered “A” to “Y” brand tractors, now we lets go to the end of the alphabet. Zebra Tractors Zebra Tractors existed for only a short time in the USA, and was a distributor of tractors imported from India and Czechoslovakia. They were headquartered in Harrisburg, PA. Most of the tractors were built in India by HMT, which manufactured under license from Zetor. One model came from Czechoslovakia from Wikov. Zebra Tractors included a sub-compact 20 HP built in Czechoslovakia and compact and full size tractors ranging from 22 HP to 45 HP all built by HMT in India. Zebra was a division of American Jawa, the USA distributor of Zetor. They created the division to provide a lower-cost, and low horsepower alternative to the Zetor tractors. The tractors were only marketed for a few years, around 1992-1995. We will cover the Zetor Tractor Company in another thread. JAWA is a motorcycle and moped manufacturer founded in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1929 by František Janeček, who bought the motorcycle division of Wanderer. The name JAWA was established by concatenating the first letters of Janeček and Wanderer 7 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Beap52 811 #2 Posted May 28 I'm going miss my daily reading about tractor manufacturers. Well done. I googled HMT and found that HMT was formerly Hindustan Machine Tools Limited, is an Indian state-owned manufacturing company. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
