Posted by KFD68 on October 08, 2012 at 10:39:54 from (81.135.21.12):
In Reply to: Rare Ford 801 tractor posted by soundguy on October 07, 2012 at 08:04:55:
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Only TWO of these tractors were imported into Britain both by Ford Motor Company. They were used to evaluate the S-o-S transmission, photographs of them were published in Stuart Gibbards definitive Ford tractor history book.
Both tractors were either scrapped or more likely shipped back over to the US. There were no spares available for these tractors so Ford would not have allowed them to be sold onto the British market
This happened with all companies, I remember seeing a Cockshutt tractor here in 1969 which had been imported by Perkins to have a Perkins diesel engine fitted. This was cut up in 1978-9.
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