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Limited kit combination with two Tractor kits in the scale 1:24
Harry Ferguson was born 1884 in Ireland. He was fond of automobiles and aeroplanes and became the first Irishman to fly in 1909. Later he founded a company selling cars and tractors. In 1916 he invented the Ferguson System, a 3-point linkage designed to attach ploughs to tractors that is the norm nowadays. He panteted an improved version of it in 1936. Then he started building tractors, first on his own, then from 1939 in partnership with Henry Ford. Over 300.000 Ford-Fergusons were sold until 1947. The TE-20, nicknamed Little Grey Fergie, was launched in 1946 and built in Coventry by the Standard Motor Co ( which had owned Triumph since 1945 ). More than 500.000 units, both petrol and Diesel, were built until 1956. Coventry-built TE-20s were imported in France from 1946 and were successful enough to justify a joint-venture between Standard and Hotchkiss 1953. TE-20s would be assembled in the Saint-Denis factory, mostly from imported British parts. The share of French-built parts increased until reaching 100% in 1957 when the TE-20 became the FF-30. The FF-30 was a TE-20 with minor differences ( seat shape, battery location, red-painted engine and chassis ) and was produced until 1958. Some 50.000 tractors were built in Saint-Denis.
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Features
- FERGUSON TE-20 "Petit Gris"
- FERGUSON FF-30 "Ventre Rouge"
- Photo book (Captioned In French)
- Tube of glue
- Two brushes: thickness No. 3 and No. 6
- Enclosed colors: 11 silver, 19 bright red gloss, 33 black flat, 40 pale green gloss, 66 olive drab flat
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