Weird serial #?

asalow12

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I have '65 Ford 4000 of which the # groups are exactly as follows:

M4000
5E26B
A281042


The M4000 doesn't match anything I can find on the net.

I translated the second group to be: 1965 June 26 Day shift

The "A" in A281042 of the third group doesn't match anything I can find. Looks like B is manufactured in England and C is USA, but I can find nothing about A.
 
A = Antwerp and the build month would have been May not June, the m4000 doesn't work at all for a model number?
 

Thanks! I know it's a 4000, but m4000 didn't match the patterns that I found when I looked at 2 or 3 sites about Ford tractor serial #'s. A for Antwerp was also not listed.
 
yup.. belgium sn.. check the other side of the bellhousing for more numbers.. generally there are some on both on them non
'merican models. ;)
 
I remember at least one other tractor that had that M4000 instead of the regular model number code that they were supposed to have. If my memory servers me correctly (which is getting less and less likely as time goes on), I think it was modified after it left the factory for some special purpose.

A couple of different possibilities are floating around in my head (as I said my memory is getting worse the older I get). It may have been on a tractor that was rebuilt or modified in South America (Brazil or Argentina???) and then shipped to Australia for sale over there, or it may have been on a 3 cylinder 4000 that was sold as a military tug.

But being a 1965 3 cylinder 4000, the first year of production, and given that it was made in Antwerp, which didn't seem to use the standardized stampings a lot of the time anyway, it could be anything.
 
I've got one with the M4000 on it, here's the post from a few years ago

http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ford&th=554373

And kind of a followup

http://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=ford&th=554913

Fred
 
Sean

Might be mine you're remembering from a few years ago, got addresses posted in another reply to this thread.

Fred
 
Fred, thanks for jogging my memory. I knew it was something unique. So yours was a test facility tractor, and yours also had an "A" serial number.
 

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