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Zachary Hoyt

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I saw a couple of ads for County tractors in the photo ads and they jogged my memory. I have the impression that they were a modification of Ford tractors, but i don't know where I heard that. They certainly look like interesting machines, and I'd like to know more about the history of the company or how people who have had them liked them. They're too big for what I do, but the four big wheels are an interesting idea.
Zach
 
County was a UK company based near London. They specialized in converting tractors to FWD or MFD, mainly Fords, but also some other makes. They also converted tractors to high clearance, tracks, forestry, converted some light and medium trucks to FWD, built their own Ford based forward control tractor etc. When Ford started producing MFD tractors that basically put County out of business. Roadless and Muir-Hill also did similar conversion work to Ford tractors. My dad ran all three makes over the years. They were all pretty tough tractors. In the UK, they have become popular with collectors and for working in bad conditions. An equal wheel FWD tractor will run circles around the same sized MFD in the mud.
Chris
 
County tractors indeed! AFIK all were English Ford/Fordson tractors modified into 4x4 configuration at a plant in England.

There were 3 or 4 County 4x4's at work in our area in the 70's and 80's. I still see one each summer earning its keep pulling a grain cart during the wheat harvest.
 
They were usually Ford skid units (I know they did some IH's), that were converted/adapted to various uses. The conversions were done by County Commercial Cars of Fleet, Hampshire. There's a neat video of an amphibious one on youtube (search for County Seahorse). A fellow I know has a 654 (equal wheeled 4x4 version of a 1965 Ford 5000 w/Selectomatic) which is quite the thing to drive. Sam
 
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