Fordson Standard N Tractor

4cylinder petrol/paraffin Tractor
Reg. No. KHK 34
Serial No.979973,
Wide wing model with Petrol/paraffin engine.
This is a Land Utility model, first introduced in 1935, offering farmers options including a choice of Firestone, Dunlop or Goodyear pneumatic tyres.
Produced at Ford’s Dagenham plant, which was thought to be an easy target for bombing raids in WWII, and from 1940, all tractors were painted in the drab green colour to reduce the visibility of the stock of completed tractors to Enemy bombers.
Supplied by Ernest Doe, and painted in the original green.
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This was the first item purchased for this collection on 21st August 1985 from an advert in Exchange and Mart.
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Sourced from Oldham, August 1985.