Scott PA |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:49:55 [URL] [DELETE]
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9N's almost to England history
Our distributor was near Philadelphia and the docks in Delaware bay and in 1942 their salesman came around to dealers trying to sell new tractors that were on a ship that could not make it to England because of WWII, our dealership took one train car load of seven, when they arrived they were 1939's and the distributor had repainted them because the sun and salt water made the paint bad, they painted over the dirt and did not do a good job, we were charged the current 1942 price, tractors were in short supply so we were glad to have them and would have took more if we knew how long the shortages were really going to last. At least one 1939 made it to England for demo because in a Ferguson book printed in the 1980's a picture shows one with steel wheels plowing and gave a serial# in the 800 range, some did make it around 1943 and later according to pictures in later books from English writers.
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Ray Wilson |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:51:02 [URL] [DELETE]
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Scott, Interesting story. Here's a picture of some tractors at the Belvoir Tractor show near Nottingham England. This picture was taken last summer. I'm not enough of an expert to comment on these particular tractors. Maybe one of them survived the convoy trip over during the big one (WW@). By the way, there was just one 8N at the show. It had a very interesting carb and manifold arrangement. I'll post a picture of that tractor if anyone is interested. Ray Boyertown, PA
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carl jimz |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:51:57 [URL] [DELETE]
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Please post the other pic of the 8n. I am interested. Thanks. 1951 8n Carl
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Ray Wilson |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:53:30 [URL] [DELETE]
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Have a look, Carl.
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carl jimz |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:57:41 [URL] [DELETE]
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Boy, what a beauty. I like these tractors. Especially when fixed up. Carl jimz 1951 8n.
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PhilNY |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:56:46 [URL] [DELETE]
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Are the head lights different and is the work light on the wrong side?
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Ray Wilson |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:54:49 [URL] [DELETE]
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And here's intake/exhaust manifold. Notice the arrangement of the filtered air intake pipe. And the govenor linkage. Ray
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lonestarjeff |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:56:02 [URL] [DELETE]
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The English N-version was commonly set up for dual fuel(petrol/kero). If you looked under the battery door you'd see two fuel caps, even the US tractor tanks have the 2nd raised boss next to the gas cap. I understand the proceedure was to start the tractor on petrol(gas)& then switch over to kero as the exhaust heated up the vaporizer. When you were ready to shut down for the day you had to be sure & switch back over to gas & run all the kero out of the carb. Otherwise you'd be sorry in the morning. Jeff
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Patrick |
Posted 07-05-2007 at 10:55:29 [URL] [DELETE]
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That is a kerosene vaporizer. Also, what is on the side of the battery box? Looks like a 9n/ 2n cutout? Regards, Patrick
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