1955 Ferguson TEF

The Ferguson Model TE20 was a British agricultural tractor. It was Harry Ferguson's most successful design, commonly known as the Little Grey Fergie. It was manufactured from 1946 to 1956. It was a small but effective design and is a popular collectors item for enthusiasts today. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 506 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: Ferguson TEF 25 PS Baujahr: 1955 Photographed by Späth Chr. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 506 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: Ferguson TEF 25 PS Baujahr: 1955 Photographed by Späth Chr. ... Henry George (Harry) Ferguson (1884-1960) was born at Growell, near Dromore, County Down in Northern Ireland, and was the son of an Irish farmer. ...

History

The model name came from Tractor, England 20 horsepower (not the true power delivered but from a formula based on engine size, see tax horsepower). The tax horsepower was an early system by which taxation rates for automobiles were reckoned in some European countries, like Britain and France. ...

Ferguson tractor at an orange orchard in New South Wales, Australia.

The TE range of Ferguson tractors were introduced in England in 1946 following 30 years of continuous development of the 'The Ferguson System' from 1916. The first work was to design a plough and linkage to integrate the tractor with its work in a manner that was an engineering whole. The automatic control system, now employed by almost all tractor manufacturers worldwide, was patented by Harry Ferguson in 1925 and known as the 'Master Patent'.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Binomial name (L.) Osbeck Orange—specifically, sweet orange—refers to the citrus tree Citrus sinensis (syn. ... A community apple orchard originally planted for productive use during the 1920s, in Westcliff on Sea (Essex, England) An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. ... “NSW” redirects here. ... The traditional way: a German farmer works the land with a horse and plough. ...

By the early 1930s the linkage design was finalised and is now adopted as international standard category I. During the 1930s the first complete Ferguson tractors were built and the famous 'suction side' hydraulic control system^{[citation needed]} developed and put into production at the David Brown factory at Huddersfield, England. (It was this production that led in 1939 to the David Brown line of tractors). David Brown may refer to any of the following people: David M. Brown (1956–2003), American astronaut David Brown (cricketer) (born 1942), English cricketer David Brown (footballer), striker who plays for Accrington Stanley F.C. David Brown (Australian rules footballer), (born 1969), Australian footballer for Adelaide and Port Adelaide Football... Huddersfield is a large town in England near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme. ...

In order to get volume production with lower costs Harry Ferguson, following a demonstration of his tractor before Henry Ford senior in October 1938, did a gentleman's agreement with Ford to produce the Ferguson tractor in Detroit starting mid 1939.^{[citation needed]} About 300,000 of these tractors, known 'Ford Ferguson' were produced up to June 30, 1947. Henry Ford (1919) Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production. ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

During the War years the Ferguson design team developed many improvements to both tractor and implements and started to make arrangements to manufacture in the United Kingdom (UK). The agreement with Ford in 1938 was to include production at the Ford plant at Dagenham, Essex, UK but the UK Ford company would not do it.^{[citation needed]} By 1945 Ferguson had made a manufacturing agreement with the Standard Motor Company of Coventry, England to produce the Ferguson tractor incorporating all their latest improvements and to be known as the TE20, ie Tractor England.^{[citation needed]} Dagenham is a suburban town in east London, in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, situated 12 miles (19. ... 1927 Standard Nine Selby Tourer 1933 Standard Ten. ... For other uses, see Coventry (disambiguation). ...

Production started in the late summer of 1946, nearly a year before the last Ford Ferguson came off the line in Detroit in June 1947. The break with Ford left Harry Ferguson and his US company having implements to sell but no tractors. To make up the gap until the new Ferguson factory in Detroit started in October 1948, over 25,000 Coventry built TE20s were shipped to the USA and Canada. The TO (Tractor Overseas) 20 was virtually the same as the TE20.

Coventry production to 1956 was 517,651 units, about 66% being exported, mainly to Continental Europe and the British Empire but many other countries as well. To the above figure must be added TO production at Ferguson Park, Detroit. Including all 'Ferguson System' tractors from May 1936 to July 1956 brings the figure to approximately 1 million.^{[citation needed]} The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ...

Harry Ferguson merged his worldwide companies with Massey-Harris of Toronto in July 1953, three year before TE and TO20 production ended, hence the change of name on the serial plate to 'Massey-Harris-Ferguson'. The Ferguson 35 replaced the old line in the US in 1955 and the TE20 in the UK in 1956, production here starting in September of that year following re-tooling of the factory. Massey Ferguson Limited was an historically important Canadian agricultural equipment manufacturer. ...

Variants

The first TE20's ran on petrol. There were later versions that ran on Tractor vapourising oil (TVO), sometimes called "petrol/paraffin" and diesel. Some were converted in the UK to use a 3-cylinder Perkins diesel engine. Gasoline, as it is known in North America, or petrol, in many Commonwealth countries (sometimes also called motor spirit) is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture consisting primarily of hydrocarbons, used as fuel in internal combustion engines. ... Tractor vaporising oil is an internal combustion engine fuel produced from paraffin (kerosene) that was commonly used after the Second World War for tractors in the UK and Australia until diesel engines became commonplace. ... This article is about the fuel. ... Engines P3: Three cylinder diesel engine, produced from 1953-11 to 1967-03. ...

TE stood for Tractor England.

TO stood for Tractor Overseas.

Between 1948 and 1951, the TO20 with a Continental engine was built in Detroit, Michigan.

Models and production years:

• TE-20 Continental Z-120 petrol engine 1946-1948
• TEA-20 Standard Motor Company petrol engine 1947-1956
• TEB-20 Continental Z-120 petrol engine - Narrow wheelbase 1946-1948
• TEC-20 Standard petrol - Narrow 1948-1956
• TED-20 TVO 1949-1956
• TEE-20 TV0 - Narrow 1949-1956
• TEF-20 diesel 1951-1956
• TEH-20 lamp oil engine 1950-1956
• TEJ-20 lamp oil engine - Narrow 1950-1956
• TEK-20 petrol - Vineyard 1952-1956
• TEL-20 TV0 - Vineyard 1952-1956
• TEM-20 lamp oil - Vineyard 1952-1956
• TEP-20 petrol - Industrial 1952-1956
• TER-20 TVO - Industrial 1952-1956
• TES-20 lamp oil - Industrial 1952-1956
• TET-20 Diesel - Industrial 1952-1956

Half a million TE20 tractors of all models were built. They were succeeded by the FE35, and then shortly after Ferguson merged with Massey to become Massey-Ferguson. For a time both Massey Harris and Ferguson brands continued alongside, until the FE35 became the MF (Massey Ferguson) 35. TVO is an acronym with several different significations: Televisora de Oriente (Venezuelan TV station) TVOntario (Canadian TV station) Óptima Televisión (Chilean TV station) TV Osaka (Japanese TV station) Total Value of Oranges Tractor vaporising oil (an engine fuel for British tractors) Total Viable Organism (a microbiology term for determining... A Massey Ferguson MF 135. ...

Famous Fergies

• There is a monument in Wentworth on the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers in Australia commemorating the time in 1956 when both rivers flooded and a fleet of little grey Fergies was used to build levee banks to save the town.

• A fleet of seven Ferguson TE-20s were used on the 1955-59 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Four petrol-engined and three diesel models were used. Some were supplied as half-tracks, with steerable front skis, whilst others were full rubber caterpillar tracks. In both cases, the track kits were easily removable and in light conditions the tractors were used on standard wheels and tyres. Other than this, the tractors were totally standard- two were even fitted with a standard farmyard hydraulic front-loader for loading and unloading supplies. Reports were made at regular intervals to the Ferguson company and these show the tractors to have been reliable and effective- being capable of climbing a 1-in-7 slope of 'hard polished ice where a man cannot walk without crampons', as well as operating in conditions of -10 degrees Fahrenheit. ([1]).

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External links

• Friends of Ferguson Web Site
• Massey-Ferguson Tractor and Combine Web Site
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