We finally visited the "Museu d'Epoca tractor!" Finally we visited the
"tractor Museu d'Epoca" ! Ja discussed in another article entitled:
"Collecting things improbable" who had opened a museum dedicated to Castellbisbal antique tractors. In the summer party of this population, Castellbisbal, gather every year many enthusiasts who participate in various activities organized on the old tractors and contribute to promoting the hobby. From our first articles have been on the blog:
http://lostractoresantiguos.blogspot.com/2008/10/feria-de-castellbisbal.html http://lostractoresantiguos.blogspot.com/2009/08/la -Fair-of-Castellbisbal-2009.html The visit was very interesting, lets see more than a hundred tractors from the early models with wheels steam iron to current models ... A private collection, the most comprehensive in the country, with patience and perseverance has met Joan Bosch. We have to thank acompany us over the visit and we enjoyed the tractors and the stories that was telling us. Read the story each of them and the technical and mechanical details of each model.
first thing we noticed was a war plane that had many uses throughout its history until it was rescued from a nightclub in a state that makes it difficult to restore. In the museum there are also stationary engines that recall the beginning of mechanization. It's always interesting to see and hear some of these old tractors in motion, a feature of the collection is that all tractors are ready to be implemented. Have achieved
launch the museum does not terminate the task but which maintains and fuels the illusion in new projects. The current location is not the site final museum. The final draft of the museum is ambitious in its proposed design and operation: a place where you can aprendre interectuando with tractors in their natural environment, the countryside, with a workshop and other services necessary to make it a modern and sustainable museum . Maintain a collection of these characteristics requires a significant investment so far has had no institutional support, creation of a foundation with the participation of the City begins to bear fruit with the visit of some personalities who support the project.
didactic function of time is accomplished with numerous visiting groups of children and young people who, strolling through the museum, learning mechanics and the recent history of rural life.
We can only invite you to tour the ship and find out their tractors to support this exciting initiative.
