Originally purchased by F.E. Bishop of Bando Station, Mullaley, Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, this tractor is now on display at the Gunnedah Rural Museum¹ along with the original owner's manual and correspondence relating to its purchase.

Mr. Bishop ordered a Fitch Four Drive Tractor with the Sydney Auto Truck Company in Brisbane instead of one of the numerous Australian-built tractors or the more popular McCormick tractors. He must have felt that the Fitch Four Drive would not get stuck in the sticky, self-mulching black soil of the North West Plains in Australia.

The tractor was ordered with an optional center-mounted grader blade and industrial solid rubber tired cast wheels in addition to the standard steel lugged agricultural wheels. Bando Station had a large network of railroad tracks to maintain. Each time cattle or sheep were rounded up and driven by mounted stockmen along the tracks in wet weather, the surface became a sea of mud. When the hot sun reappeared, the mud baked into dangerous, rutted roadways which only a grader blade could smoothen.

 Bishop's tractor was powered by a Climax K Series 4-cylinder engine (#8422) and was to develop 20 drawbar and 35 belt horsepower at 800 rpm. The tractor weighed 7,000 pounds when equipped with the cast wheels, solid tires and grader blade.