Fordson color

crazy8 · Dec 9, 2021

what color is a 1930 early Irish n supposed to be?

SkipperII · Dec 9, 2021

Here's a utube clip of a '31 in it's work clothes. Appears that it was gray.

Majorman · Dec 9, 2021

Sorry it is in black and white but it does give an idea of the colour. As Skipper says it was light grey and I think, red wheels.

Sorry the site will not let me load the 1929 picture.

crazy8 · Dec 9, 2021

It has gray paint on it. The f&h spokes are orange. I was told the entire tractor should be orange. Ive seen English Ns in orange but not Irish.

Majorman · Dec 10, 2021

This picture was taken in 1929 and the tractor is one of the first batch of Irish N's to arrive from the Cork factory. The picture was taken from the 1929 Royal Show, held in Norfolk and the tractor is one of three on the J. J. Wright and Sons show stand. As I said in the previous post, sorry it is not in colour.

The orange, blue and green N's did not come in until the Dagenham built tractors in the middle to late 1930's. Orange was the colour in 1938 but was changed to green in 1939 so large stocks of tractors were not so visible to German bombers after the war started in September of that year.

crazy8 · Dec 10, 2021

Thank you for your post. Im going with grey.

560Dennis · Dec 11, 2021

This Is from a prior post here on yesterday s
I cut and paste the text for your reference .
Whats said

According to Allan T. Condie's book, Fordson Model N 1929-45, he states that the last Cork, Ireland built tractors prior to the move to English production, were pale blue with red wheels. After the beginning of English production in 1933, color was changed to dark blue with orange wheels. Color was changed again in 1937 to harvest gold with gold wheels, and again in 1940 to dark green with green wheels. No where in the book does he state the color of the earliest Cork production, or whether different parts were painted different colors. Example: would the seat and spring, steering wheel center, oil filler cap, transmission dip stick, throttle rod, radiator cap and knob, toolbox, and spark plug wire loom be body color or a contrasting color?

560Dennis · Dec 11, 2021

Same post on yesterdays from 2005 by terry woods ,this is a cut and paste from a butch Howe.

What said .

Terry, I have a very correctly restored 1931 Irish. Many people who restore or spiff up the Fordsons tend to paint all the little doo-dads other colors including painting in the Fordson logo's on the tank, radiator, seat, etc. Factory photo's show that there were very few parts painted colors other than gray. The 29-32 Cork tractors were a very light gray. Probably close to an 8n color. I have 1931 #772770. When I restored tis tractor I took original paint chips and had them matched. It came very close to the 8n gray. Wheels were red. Some came with black. Seat, spring, steering wheel and tool box are black. All the other you mentioned are body color. If you need more info email me, Butch

crazy8 · Dec 11, 2021

Thank you 560Dennis, I appreciate your time and post. Very Interesting , i would like to see that book .

crazy8 · Dec 11, 2021

I read some where that the wheels were painted black for a short time but returned to red rather quickly ?

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