Are we all driving TRACTORS

[V8ian]

I have never realised the Ford thing for Tractors before, sure I have known the all the bits but never linked then together, They had their own tractor brand, Fordson, They made the first Mass produced car with a viscous diff, RST, designed by Harry Ferguson a well known tractor builder. and they actually name a model after a Tractor Designer, Aston Martins model name the DB 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9, David Brown is a tractor maker and one time owner of Aston Martin, hence the DB, and Ford own Aston Martin.

Can you imagine the face of the DB driver when the is labled with the CHELSEA TRACTOR moniker

Even if you go back in the Aston histroy, the first Aston Martin, was built by a farmers Blacksmith, by the name of Lionel Martin, Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. Martin raced specials at Aston Hill near Aston Clinton hence the name, If you go up into the woods above Aston Clinton there is a stone monument to Aston Martin at the top of the hill,

They went their sererate ways, I have a strange feeling Robert Bamford was somthing to do with the formulation of JCBamford, a bit more of a tractor link,

Ford also own Volvo, who in turn make tractors,

Can we see a patern here-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[over_head_cam]

OOO-ARR oiy thinks we do

[Vista]

Aston Martin are not the only super car maker (do AM qualify as super cars or as luxury GT cars? ) with a tractor heritage, Lamborghini was also originally a tractor manufacturer.

[Twinkle]

my m8 used to have a porsche tractor it was the first thing i ever drove and yes it was red

[EmmaOrbit]

You can't beat a good tractor, must admit the Fast track is my fav to drive as it goes well fast on the roads. The old Ford Fork lift tractors (the one where you climb though the front) Are the the round ones....

 

Sorry a farmer Girl!!!!!!!!!!!

 

It's mad how most cars come from the tractor or farm machine. Witch came first the tactor or the car? Lol

[Twinkle]

em in a fast track now that i would like to see

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

topless of course

[V8ian]

It's mad how most cars come from the tractor or farm machine. Witch came first the tactor or the car? Lol

 

 

I would say car first tractor second, I dont think tractors came about untill the mid 30s after the depression, not saying farms were not mechanised before that but steam power was more widely used using drag ploughs rather ploughs strapped to the back, and gathering hay with steam there would allway be the inherrent risk of fire, also the weight of a traction/ploughmans engine was rather a lot, I think the petrol/diesel small tractor took of after the 2WW when the unitised attachment and the PTO was fitted to the Ferusion or was it the Fordson, allowing a small lightweight tractor to work fields with different crops, changing impliments/attachments easily as required,

[Vista]

It's mad how most cars come from the tractor or farm machine. Witch came first the tactor or the car? Lol

 

 

 

I would say car first tractor second, I dont think tractors came about untill the mid 30s after the depression, not saying farms were not mechanised before that but steam power was more widely used using drag ploughs rather ploughs strapped to the back, and gathering hay with steam there would allway be the inherrent risk of fire, also the weight of a traction/ploughmans engine was rather a lot, I think the petrol/diesel small tractor took of after the 2WW when the unitised attachment and the PTO was fitted to the Ferusion or was it the Fordson, allowing a small lightweight tractor to work fields with different crops, changing impliments/attachments easily as required,

 

You're right, definitely car first and it was the Ferguson TE20 with the unitised PTO attachments, a revolutionary machine in tractor terms. Sadly it rendered the shire horse redundant and largely good for dog meat over night . Westcountry classic car shows always have tractor stands and we have to endure tractor displays in the ring Each to their own I guess.

[V8ian]

It's mad how most cars come from the tractor or farm machine. Witch came first the tactor or the car? Lol

 

 

 

I would say car first tractor second, I dont think tractors came about untill the mid 30s after the depression, not saying farms were not mechanised before that but steam power was more widely used using drag ploughs rather ploughs strapped to the back, and gathering hay with steam there would allway be the inherrent risk of fire, also the weight of a traction/ploughmans engine was rather a lot, I think the petrol/diesel small tractor took of after the 2WW when the unitised attachment and the PTO was fitted to the Ferusion or was it the Fordson, allowing a small lightweight tractor to work fields with different crops, changing impliments/attachments easily as required,

 

You're right, definitely car first and it was the Ferguson TE20 with the unitised PTO attachments, a revolutionary machine in tractor terms. Sadly it rendered the shire horse redundant and largely good for dog meat over night . Westcountry classic car shows always have tractor stands and we have to endure tractor displays in the ring Each to their own I guess.

 

Vista, It worries me that you know the exact tractor model that had the PTO

[Vista]

 

As I said we have to suffer tractor displays at classic car shows in the summer. Listening to all the Tractor boys go on about which engine is better in their TE20 (think there was 3 options including diesel and petrol variants) is about as throbbing as the 15 page thread over the road about Pinto's Zetecs Duratecs and XE's

 

The traction engines are pretty cool though, some one crashed one & put it on its side at the end of last summer, I think the road was closed for days while they looked for something big enough to lift it.

 

Does beg the question "How the flying f**k does someone roll a steam engine?"

[Rick]

"How the flying f**k does someone roll a steam engine?"

 

lmao, they weigh about 50 tonne dont they

[V8ian]

front axle is just a steerable beam, hit somthing hard and turn it sideways and the and the thing is a very tall, high CoG tricycle with a big roller under the front., would tip over very easily in that situation

[escortmad79]

http://www.ssbtractor.com/features/Ford_tractors.html

[Arched Escy]

my m8 used to have a porsche tractor it was the first thing i ever drove and yes it was red

My Grandad has a red Porsche tractor and use to have a blue Lamborghini aswell.

[LUKE261]

yea porsche, lamborgini all built tractors, my mates dad is a lamborgini tractor dealer and when we were 16 and he just passed his tractor test, he told these old birds up town im coming out in my lamborgini 2nite they said yea yea, he did lol i pmsl 2 this day.

[LUKE261]

fordson were the tractors the e27n, major, dexter then eventually changed name 2 ford. early comercial vans were also called fordson, like the sit up n beg pop van.

 

my mate has just done up a fordson major for the steam rally season this year, looks well smart i tell ya, and he also has a power major with a perkins v8 diesel engine in it originally built for tractor pulling it goes very well.

 

i also work for perkins engines lol

[Mr Sam]

ive got a grey fergie

 

harry ferguson and henry ford shook hands so mr ford could use mr fergusons 3 point hydrolic system on his ford tractors

[EmmaOrbit]

em in a fast track now that i would like to see

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

topless of course

 

Has been Known Twink...

[Twinkle]

em in a fast track now that i would like to see

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

topless of course

 

Has been Known Twink...

[Arched Escy]

There's a Ford Dexter sitting in front of our Escort!

[V8ian]

OoooHhhhhhhhh, what have I started, this is turning out to be a bit of an outing for closet TRACTOR LOVERS

[louie bagel]

fordson were the tractors the e27n, major, dexter then eventually changed name 2 ford.

 

you missed out the fordson standard n

 

i've got

 

fordson standard n

fordson major

grey fergy

david brown 25d(diesel)

david brown petrol parafine

oh and a garden tractor

 

so you could say i've got a couple of aston martins

 

[Mr Sam]

, and he also has a power major with a perkins v8 diesel engine in it originally built for tractor pulling it goes very well.

 

this one????

 

 

what a sound

[Mr Sam]

before watching this video id like to point out beyond 20mph the steering on a fergie is completly deffective and you know when you see bikes doing tank slappers the wheel tharts doing that, not for the faint hearted

 

.........now check this nutter out

 

 

essex V6?

[spooner]

 

thats a pretty one