Ford 5000 Serial, age and so on

5000_serial · Jul 13, 2018

Hi!
I have a Ford 5000 located in Norway and i'm wodering about the model year. Annyone ho is able to point me to a webpage for europian serial numbers?
Attached is a picture of the id plate under the bonnet.

Thanks

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JoeM(GA) · Jul 13, 2018

Unit number is your build date 5D15B
April 15, 1965 second shift

Fordfarmer · Jul 13, 2018

Did they use those tags in '65? It could also be April 15, 1975.

5000_serial · Jul 13, 2018

Thank's for quick answers. I have always belived this was an 75 mod, but i would like to be proven otherwise

. What i don't understand is the A in the tractor number. Is there a different numbering i Europa?

sunbeam · Jul 13, 2018

Can we justify that big of a serial number for the first year of production?

Sean in PA · Jul 13, 2018

I agree that it would be a 1975 model. A 1965 would have a much lower serial number (tractor number), as they started the Antwerp tractors in 1965 with either A100001, and my reference says that when they switched to the "New Models" with the new sheet metal and grill style on 4/1/68 they were only up to A168001.

Fordfarmer · Jul 13, 2018

The first digit of the serial number denoted which factory built it - A = Antwerp, B = Basildon, C = U.S. built (I can't remember which cities the factories were in back then... Romeo came on-line around '75)

JoeM(GA) · Jul 13, 2018

yep! 1975 I didn't read the serial #

cdmn · Jul 13, 2018

I have my doubts. Let us see what the tractor looks like.

From what I can read, the number looks like A278896. Perhaps the first 8 is really a B? Hash marks instead of diamonds? In fact, it looks like it's been double stamped. What does it say on the transmission pad?

I'm not even sure Antwerp was assembling 5000s at that late date.

Since the engines came from England, maybe the number is the engine number. Worked for Ford for 50 years in cars and trucks, but it caused registration problems when a rebuilt engine was installed.

cdmn · Jul 13, 2018

If they were building tractors at about 300 per week, 7 years x 52 x 300 = 109,000

Adding to 168,000 = 277,000. Not so unreasonable if they used straight serial numbers,
and not production numbers for different series, etc. Take into account holidays and vacation shutdowns.

Sean in PA · Jul 13, 2018

(quoted from post at 17:13:27 07/13/18)
If they were building tractors at about 300 per week, 7 years x 52 x 300 = 109,000

Adding to 168,000 = 277,000. Not so unreasonable if they used straight serial numbers,
and not production numbers for different series, etc. Take into account holidays and vacation shutdowns.

I'm not sure what it is that you're trying to calculate here, or what it's trying to prove, but as I said, I have a copy of a European Ford Factory Service Manual page on the starting serial numbers of the "New Model" tractors that started on 4/1/68 with the new sheet metal and grill styles, and the first Antwerp serial number for the New Models was A168001, so it had to be made after that if hte serial number is A

Since the engines came from England, maybe the number is the engine number. Worked for Ford for 50 years in cars and trucks, but it caused registration problems when a rebuilt engine was installed.

Nope, the engine serial number for 5000 series engines started with an "R" for pre-4/1/68 tractors and they started with an "E" for post 4/1/68 tractors.

Sean in PA · Jul 13, 2018

The first digit of the serial number denoted which factory built it - A = Antwerp, B = Basildon, C = U.S. built (I can't remember which cities the factories were in back then... Romeo came on-line around '75)

I think that before Romeo they were made in Highland Park.

cdmn · Jul 13, 2018

I'm trying to show that if they continued to forge ahead at a steady
300 tractors per week, they'd be at the serial number he's got by 1975.
The 5000 was pretty popular in Europe, so they probably kept the line going.
His number is not out-of-line too high.

5000_serial · Jul 14, 2018

Zoomed in on number plate and adjusted the light. Will send ore pictures later today.

5000_serial · Jul 14, 2018

5000_serial · Jul 14, 2018

(quoted from post at 10:19:43 07/14/18)

5000_serial · Jul 14, 2018

Destroked 450 · Jul 14, 2018

Flat grill used on models built from mid 1968 to 1975
5D09C
5 is the year and with the flat grill yours can't be a 65 model so it was built in 75
Tractor was built April 09 1975 on afternoon shift

Model number E1015C
E = 5000
10 = All Purpose model
1 = Diesel engine
5 = Independent 540/1000 pto, this is rare in US model 5000's
C = 8x2 manual transmission

A in the serial number means the tractor was built in Antwerp, Belgium

Destroked 450 · Jul 14, 2018

Sorry, I looked at the engine build date.
5D15B is the tractors build date

April 15 1975 Day shift

Sean in PA · Jul 14, 2018

(quoted from post at 10:50:24 07/14/18)
Sorry, I looked at the engine build date.
5D15B is the tractors build date

April 15 1975 Day shift

Hopefully the workers at the factory weren't too worried about their taxes to distract them when they were putting it together.

Destroked 450 · Jul 14, 2018

May need to back date to see if it was built on a monday or friday. :lol:

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