1st November 2006

Here's Pete out working,on a private road, with Bryony driving, on the 31st October 2006

07/01/2006

The photo above shows the Devon verge trimmer I have just been lucky enough to acquire. One of these was sold with my TE P 20 when it was first delivered to The West Riding County Council in 1952

21st December 2005
On the Occassion of the celebration of our Partnership Agreement

Friday December 15th 2005

Here is a completed rear wing. I am not mad yet, but give me 5 more days!

Christmas day 2005
It's slowly coming ono.

Wedesday September 21st 2005

Pete is coming on rather well. We have one of the front fenders ready to assemble. The photos below show it placed on the tractor to check sizes etc. There are a few more cuts to do and some fine adjustments which will bring the shapes just right, then we can weld it all together and roll the edges.
Then it's just a matter of working out the sprung catch mechanism.

Tuesday September 20th 2005

From the photos above, it can be seen that Pete's cylinder head is ground, the seats are re-cut and have inserts where necessary etc.

The red paint is a primer. Grey undercoat and grey gloss to follow.

Saturday September 17th 2005

It's on it's way!

There's another rumour that the rear fenders will be complete today. Rumours abound!

I can pretend can't I?

Thursday September 15th 2005
Nothing has happened on Pete today.

Wednesday September 14th 2005

Matt Raynor is due today to start to make the fenders for Pete the TE P 20. The photo below shows the lamp which is mounted in the front grill as part of the arrangements for fitting the High Lift Loader.

Matt got himself and his mate here as we were lunching. In the short time since, he has laid out all his tools and carefully measured up and cut the 1st panel. I have stood it on the tractor to pose in the picture below. My excitement is childish and pathetic. I would make a good tractorspotter.

yep! It's getting dark.

3rd September 2005
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TE P 291909 aka 'Pete the TEPe'
3/4 of the way back together after 3 1/2 years in bits

Friday September 2nd 2005
Today I received copies of minutes of meetings held ack in the 50's by West Riding County Council from the very helpful people at the archives, which read as follows.

26th February 1951

PURCHASE OF PLANT
Tractors and Accessories

The Riding Surveyor submitted a report and schedule of tenders received for the supply of seven trctors, together with auziliary equipment. The Riding Surveyor reported that only the tender of Harry Ferguson Limited was to specification and would meet completely the requirements of Road Traffic Regulations. He further reported that the main advantage to be gained through the use of the type of tractor offered by Harry Ferguson Limited was that by employing the several accessories which had recently been adapted for use with this type of machine, a considerable saving in both time and labour would be achieved on operations such as the levelling of grass margins, verge trimming, road sweeping, snow-ploughing, and the clearing of snow from footways, and when well operated, the quality of work of the machines would be much higher than that which could be obtained by manual means. The Riding Surveyor reported that at present Harry Ferguson Limited offered a right hand mid-mounted mowing machine as one of the accessories, but the Riding Surveyor was desirous of obtaining a left handed mid-mounted mowing machine, and the Company were endeavouring to modify the mounting of their mowing machine acordingly.

Recommended--
(2477)That the tender of Harry Ferguson Limited, in the sum of £7,516 5s 0d (£1.073 15s 0d. per machine) for the supply of seven Ferguson Industrial Tractors, complete with Bomford-Evershed Dozer Blades, with angle attachments, Ferguson left handed mid-mounted Mowers, Twose Verge Cutters and Trimmers, Ferguson Earth Levellers, and Masta Rotary Sweeping brushes, complete with accessories, be accepted, subject to the Contractors entering into a Contract to the satisfaction of the Clerk; also that the Common Seal of the County Council be affixed to all necessary documents.

Purchase of Self-Feeding Mechanical Elevators
The Riding Surveyor referred to Recommendatoins Nos. 1879 and 1880 of the Minutes of the meeting etc...... and stated that it has not been possible to supply the one Tractor Mounted Self-Feeding Gravel Elevator, complete with Ferguson Tractor, as set out etc..... but that the Company had promised to deliver the equipment in the near future, and that tests of it would then, immediately, be made.

The Riding Surveyor reported that provision had been made for the purchase during the current financial year of a further nine tractors, complete with self-feeding mechanical elevators, but that it was proposed to purchase a new type of Ferguson tractor, as referred to in recommendation n. 2477, to which the self-feeding mechanical elevator could be attached, it would now only be necessary to purchase the self-feeding mechanical elevators. He further reported that W. Firth and Son Limited were prepared to supply nine self-feeding mechanical elevators at a cost of £464 (That's worth £8,954.34 today. Ed.) each. etc...............

11th June 1951
Recommended (2894) That the tender of Harry Ferguson Limited., in the sum of £29,301 (That's worth £565,454.72 today. Ed.) (Tractor £514, (That's worth £9,919.24 today. Ed.) dozer blade with angle attachement £46 5s 0d. (That's worth £892.54 today. Ed.), near-side mid-mounted grass margin mower £130 (That's worth £2,508.76 today. Ed.), sweeping brush £150 each (That's worth £2,894.72 today. Ed.), for the supply of 36 Ferguson Industrial Tractors, each complete with Bomford and Evershed trimmer and rotary sweeping brush, and for 15 Ferguson near-side mid-mounted grass mowers, be accepted, subject to etc............. (That's an order in which each unit, being made up of a tractor, a mower, a sweeping brush and a dozer blade is worth £16215.26, plus the cost of repainting it all, today. Ed.)

3rd December 1951
Recommended
(3474) That the tender of Harry Ferguson Limited, in the sum of £2,730 (£130per machine), for the supply of twenty-one Ferguson near-side grass margin mowers be accepted etc..............

8th December 1952
PAINTING OF FERGUSON INDUSTRIAL TRACTORS AND EQUIPMENT

The Riding Surveyor reported that, during the past three years, authority had been given for the purchase of forty-four Ferguson tractors, together with equipment. He stated that, owing to mass production arrangements, the Company were only able to deliver the equipment in their standard grey, and it had been the intention to have the tractors and equipment painted after delivery. The Riding surveyor reported that he expected delivery of the tractors and equipment by June 1952 but that delivery had not commenced until mid September. As one of the major uses of the tractor is winter gritting, it was necessary that all equipment should be ready for use by the end of October, and in order for this to be done, arrangements had been made with the Company for their various dealers to paint the tractors and equipment before delivery in colours as desired by the County Council.

etc..... (That's worth £38,134.90 today. Just for a blow-over in a different colour. I wonder what it would have cost to strip back and start afresh?Ed.), for the painting etc..... £25 0s 0d. each tractor-only plus implements. Total £866.7 each unit, making the unit cost of each tractor at today's prices around £17081.96 etc...........

SUPPLY OF CABS FOR FERGUSON INDUSTRIAL TRACTORS
Recommended
(975)That the Chairman of this Sub-Comittee be empowered to authorise the purchase of cabs for 44 Ferguson Industrial tractors, at prices within the approved estimate, etc..............

Wednesday 24th August

Monday 8th August

Ooh!
I have half-shafts

Oh WOW!

Incidently, it's a member of Ross's family who supplies my difficult to get electrical parts for Pete. Surf to www.vintagesupplies.co.uk to find his web site.

We are about here now!

New pistons, rings, liners re-ground crank shaft all in.

Thursday 4th August

Here's William underneath checking all nuts and bolts are tight

That reminds me, I must get a Pickup Hitch on there before much longer or it will get sold or forgotten or something.

The braking system is fitted to the near side and now William is fitting the parts to the off side. Mark is helping William to adjust a Brake Actuating Cam from a TE A 20 to make it the correct length for a TE P 20. We seem to be missing this item - well, not exactly missing, it's just that the examples we have are pretty darned rusty and pitted.

In the mean time, Mark has gone into Norwich to collect a couple of orders we have with different suppliers who do not deliver. He does like going out, but I have kept him here for some days. In general, keeping Mark here gets a lot more done. He just doesn't like it much. The point of it is that one of those orders is for a part which we need for Pete the TE P 20

The other thing I've just done is to leave a message for Mark with one of those sulliers to ask him to get some lead and some butter. With that we shall be able to lead the dashboard of Pete the TE P 20 which is awfull piited and we don't like pitted dash boards, no do we?

Tuesday 2nd August 2005

William is back and I have been having a little go myself. We are advancing at quite a pace. Ross has been preparing parts for the new Used Parts Web Shop and I've been nicking them as quickly as he has been making thenm ready for sale. Wills. has then been fitting them and the thing is going on a-pace. I hope by the end of this week to be able to report that the tractor is 2/3rds done.

That will mean that we have the back end complete (with it's dump valve and selector valve for the High lift loader) and the gearbox is already in place and bolted on. I am so excited. The boys are preparing the steering box. They have fitted new seals and a new plug (the old one was a bit mangled). Mark (he doesn't know it yet) is collecting some gasket paper from the Head Dudes when he collects Denzil's cylinder head and the crank for Pete.

Aha! You noticed that I said he is collecting the crank for Pete. I hope he is. I did have one for Pete, but have allocated it to a customer for his tractor and so, I have slipped behind again! Anyway, now it will mean that we have all the major parts to re-assemble the bottom end of the engine and I would so like to see the engine re-assembled. I'm going to have the screaming abdabs waiting for the Cylinder Head to be collected. The only delay is money, so it's actually ready at Head Dudes to collect when I can afford it.

As I have been typing, William has fitted the clutch release bearing and shaft. I am so excited!

Ross is now priming the Steering box with Special Metal Primer. We have to watch this job a bit, these tractors do seem to suffer with corrosion round the steering box. Special Metal Primer and lots of Titanine seem to be the best defence. Then all we can do is keep the oil clean and plenty of it.

Wednesday 20th July 2005

William is on holiday! Hmmm! Wish I could afford one, then I could get on with my TE P 20 myself

I have bought all the remaining (correct) lights for Pete and another Industrial back wheel. I have a pair of white side lamps to go on the front of the back wings. I have a rear lamp to show as a tail lamp and number plate illumination lamp. I had one back tyre already, so that's the pair for the back. I do not yet quite know what tyres to put on the front wheels.

Call me a twit, but I've also bought a little Ferguson 30cwt tipping trailer to go behind Pete. it's in a dreadful state, but no doubt it can be restored. The bottom is completely rotted out of the bed, it's sides are rotten from about 1/2 way down and it's a very sad case all round - but these little trailers are so gorgeous! I just had to have one. Maybe I'll become a regular sight driving up to the Post Office to despatch goods in it?

Thursday 7th July 2005

William got the Pinion fitted into the back end today with it's new bearings and so on. He even managed to get the oil splash-guard fitted. This is such a painstaking process, but it's so worth while.

Monday/Tuesday 20th/21st June 2005

I've just had

Friday 17th June 2005

Today the Tansmission bearings arrived. Woppieeeeeeeeee!
William is due to arrive at 4pm and I will ask him to fit those and start the re-assembly process. Why is it that a decorator's house is never decorated? Well! It's MY turn! So there!

Seriously though, Wills. is here for 2 hours, 3 evenings each week (and I hope will be here quite a bit over the school holidays) so I expect to see some real progress over the coming weeks.

We now have quite a nnumber (see how excited I am, I'm stuttering:-) of parts prepared for fitting. the head has gone to the head specialists and things really are going on at a good pace. Wills. aught to be able to get the back end up and running fairly soon. There is the transmission casing, Hydraulic Pump, 1 axle (complete with it's dual braking system), the Geabox. All painted and ready to re-assemble. We have bearings, complete engine kit, bushes and seals all in stock with Pete's name on them. It's really quite a pile of bits, all bought and/or prepared slowly over the past 2 years.

Here is William, at 4:10pm and working away on Pete the TE P 20 in the showroom under the public eye - and mine as he is in direct line of the desk. He won't be getting away with much from where I'm sitting.

It's a rather sweltering afternoon. I have had to open more doors to the fresh air for William as he was getting very hot working under the Showroom Lights. I've also given him my ofice fan. Now that is dedication on my part! All I've got to do now is to persuade Mark to hand over the electrical extension lead so that Wills can get his fan going.

William is off now in the workshop getting ready to put a new Lower Link Pin onto Pete.

Thursday 16st June 2005

As it says on the news page, I'm getting excited now! The horn/dip/main beam switch for Pete the TEP 20 arrived this morning along with a real front Butler Headlamp to go on the front. That will mount on one of our new central headlamp brackets which are an exact copy of the one we removed (snapped accross the front. We were lucky to have the broken bit.) from this tractor.

Here's Pete's bonnet (balanced on the bed of my Albion Printing Press) with a central Headlamp Mounting Bracket and the lamp to match sitting on top.

I am still trying to decide whether to go for reproduction rear side lamps or whether, instead, to go for front mounted side lamps. I do, however, have the Rear Butler Work Lamp on it's way (with the little tractor in it).
Reproduction Butler Rear Lamp

Did I mention that the descision about whether or not to include the Council Conversion has now been made, for sure and is now set in stone. My tractor DID have a Council Conversion AS WELL AS full front wings which could be removed when a High Lift loader was employed. That certain fact along with photographic evidence from the period (supplied by Mike Thorne) has fixed my mind on it.

The evidence proving that it had a Weathersheilds Canopy Cabin is also overpoweringly compelling and we will seek one out or make one from scratch. I have always liked to have a cab (soppy poof !) and the scar across the bonnet along with the Weathersheilds Canopy Cabin Support Bracket (still on the tractor, forward of the battery case) have convinced me that it is certainly correct. I only hope the Weathersheilds Canopy Cabin is wide enough for my somewhat bulky frame. If I were a woman trying to get into a dress, I guess I would loose a couple of stones. Maybe I'll do that then, if it's a tight squeeze!

Compare the black and white photo taken in the 50's, on the left, of a tractor with a canopy cabin with the colour photo of mine as it was when I got it two or three years ago. They were taken from slightly different angles and at rather different distances, but you see the principle.

Wednesday 1st June 2005

We have more information coming in here. Mike Thorne has sent us some fascinating data. Here is a photo that I did not expect to see. It shows a very different kind of front wing.

Now, that has made me notice that the vertical piece on the front of the wing in the photo I last uploaded is rather shallower (less high) than the one on the top photo at the top of the Main Part of Article below. The rivets shown on that forward facing part are also differently spaced. These subtle differences are fascinating and make it difficult to begin to build the wings for my TE P 20 because I don't know with which type mine was fitted.

That leads to another delightful revelation! You may remember that I was unsure whether to go with The Council Conversion or the Full Industrial configuration. Well! Mike's information shows a number of tractors with Number Plates either side of mine. These range between LWU 51 and LWU 78 and they all worked for West Riding County Council. That means that mine will be much like the ones in the photos. Here is LWU 51 working for that council WITH a loader. Mine has LWU 67 painted on the bonnet top.

And the one below shows the same tractor working without a loader. You will note, with interest I hope, that the upper photo shows the tractor WITHOUT a front wing and the lower one shows the same tractor working WITH a front wing fitted. that means that they DID remove and re-fit them according to whether they had a front loader attatched at the time. It also explains how these front wings could, so easily, be lost over the years.

As you can see, the tractor (the same LWU 51) is shoving a snow plough blade on this occassion. That has the effect of limiting our vision of the very front of the front wing and the back of the wing is obscured by the rear wing. But at least we CAN SEE a front wing! And you can see from the amount of the rear of the front wing which is to view that it is NOT the new-to-us type of wing which is fitted to this tractor (as seen in the next photo down). Since this tractor and mine were in the same fleet, I have decided that this is the best evidence that can be hoped for in deciding which kind of wing to fit.

It seems NOT to be this wing shape shown in Mike's collection of pictures.

Then we have another exciting discovery. Once again, regular readers will remember that I have mentioned that my TE P 20 had a cab. You will recall that the evidence for this was that there is a scar on the bonnet top paintwork (and a slight wear-groove in the aluminium of which it is made) and a frame below the battery cage, to support it. I could not see how the cab could accomodate a High lift Loader (and it would have been only if a loader were fitted that The Council Conversion would be needed) as I had not ever seen a cab which could. Mike's pictures have solved this mystery for me.

See how the top of the cab swings back (pushed by the loader arms) when the loader gets above 6.5 feet high?

The frame work to which I refered is caught at the bottom of the photo that goes with this. You will note another important little feature in this photo which shows the letting-in of the frame, where the wing clamps hard to the side of the tractor. The wing can be seen, slightly swung out of the way at the very bottom of the picture.

Thursday 26th May 2005

Here's another period picture which turned up this morning of an Industrial Ferguson

This picture is in a 1951 publication entitled Facts about Farming with Ferguson. Note that is shows standard agricultural front tyres, Cyclops headlamp and little side lights on the front wings. It shows no fascility for wheel weights on the wheels. It also gives us a very good idea of the radii for the folds on the wings. and a very nice impression of the front wing catches at the rear.

Wednesday 25rd May 2005

We had a call yesterday from a person who was enquiring about, what appeared on the face of it, to be an ordinary petrol or TVO TE 20 series tractor. Probably either a TE 20 TE A 20 or a TE D 20 (it has a dual-fuel tank). As the conversation went on, it turned out to have Hydraulic as well as Mechanical Brakes. This led to more research and we find that he has a TE P-ZD. I have not come across a surviving example of this model before and it is a delight to have had the opportunity to talk about it and to identify it. Many thanks to Chris., who has looked it up for us. I hope that the new owner will join Friends of Ferguson Heritage (who can be found at www.FoFH.co.uk). He will then be able to get Chris to provide him (free of charge) with a proper Age Related Registration Proof of Age Certificate, so that he can get his free tax disc for it and drive it on the roads as was originally intended.

Now we have the tractor identified we can look at the various works which will need doing and make a sensitive job of getting into shape for the chap. I have posted a picture of a TE T-ZD, the Diesel version, below here.

Monday 23rd May 2005

I know! It seems to me as though very little get's done on my TE P 20 as well. Anyway, here is a photo of one of the brake drums. This is much wider than usual to accomodate the dual braking system's double brake shoes; one pair fits next to the other inside each of these drums.

10th May 2005
A little news on the paint front with Pete.
You will recall that I have always said that Pete seems to have been painted maroon from new; well, News Flash! You will also remember that we found a place between two plates in the dash board assembly that secrete undisturbed paint from which samples were taken to establish the REAL Ferguson Grey colour with AGCO. Well! Now we have found, in that very spot, that Pete was originally painted GREY. Woopieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Then behind the dash in the general areas, we have found that the maroon was painted OVER grey. Then we checked, and the rest of the tractor (as far as we have yet found was ALWAYS maroon from new. If we can establish EXACTLY which bits have grey under the morron and which bits have not, we might be able to deduce something about painting on The Line back in the 50's.

9th May 2005
Today Steve has cleaned back a numbr of parts ready for priming. Eureka!

I have had a wonderful idea! I have now decided to keep a spare bonnet with Council Conversion Lamps. The only problem with this plan is that the grill-lamp bracket may get in the way of the unmodified bonnet. Ah well, there is a solution to every problem! The bracket shall simply have to be fitted/removed each time the thing is changed. It’s only 2 bolts (under the radiator), after all. I can just imagine it all on display at a show! We shall have to fit an electrical plug into the loom to accommodate the modification and make transition easier.

We have now acquired (a very knd gift from a customer) an original Tip-Up seat for the TE P 20. It has brought to light the fact that Industrial tractors built at Banner Lane had slightly different Tip-Up Seats from those supplied as Optional Extras. The photo below shows the type fitted on The Line.
You will see from the photo that the spring is curved upwards at the top, rear end.

1st posting
We have the transmission and gearbox housings painted up to the nines now. They are completely stripped of all moving parts, which are being renewed as necessary and made ready for re-installation.

Don't pay any attention to the colour you see on your screen. It is almost bound to be wrong. For me (on my screen) one photo looks rather blue, and one looks rather brown for someone else, it may be quite different. They have both been taken with the same camera and of the same paint on the same parts. What I can tell you is that the colour of this paint is certainly correct and absoultely original. The camera clearly has a problem telling the truth consistantly

The mechanical faces are all greased so the overspray will wipe off with ease.

The oil pipe between the top and bottom of the housing has been replaced. this is the most major mechanical (or hydraulic) improvement made to this particular part so far. The other items that will need work are all the bearings, the hydraulic pump etc. These things are for much later in the project.

This is step one and there is much more to follow. The engine is completely stripped and ready for a re-paint following it's mechanical preparation.

The new pistons, rings, and liners are due to arrive here on Tuesday.

It is a new thing for us to be consentrating on appearance as well as mechanical work. You will see the finish we are achieving on these cast iron parts. We think it is going to be of particular interest to people who show their tractors. The big problem with detail of this nature, of course, is that it doesn't come without very considerable amounts of time being invested, which, of course, means it costs a fortune. The preparation of this one item has taken at least a day and a half, prior to priming, which represents £300.00 worth of time and expense (without materials like abrasives, paint etc. You can easily see how this tractor could become a white elephant. That is especially the case because I shall be using it around the yard once it has had it's first season out on show. There is no way we could afford to have this machine kept sitting under spotlights for very long. It will have to earn it's living as a working tractor!

The trick seems to be to get the surface as smooth as possible BEFORE applying any paint at all. In this photo, James is polishing the surface to obtain a near-mirror finish on the metal in an effort to obtain a near mirror finish in the paint that goes on top. It is only necessary to leave a slight key for the paint to adhere. All the paint will ever do is to follow the contours of the surface beneath, so even scratches need to be polished out or they will show through.

James has now got this housing primed and nearly ready to apply the first gloss coat on Monday.

That Gearbox housing is all resplendant in it's first coats of paint now and is ready to re-assemble. I'll slip a photo of it up here when I get the camera back from where I left it when it's battery ran out a couple of days ago, at home. I keep forgetting to bring it in to work.

Once the gerbox innards are back in, with new bearings etc., we can get the same thing done to the hydraulic casing with renewed pump, bearings shafts and seals and then we can connect the two parts together. That is the time when I will feel that we are beginning to have a tractor again. Some way off yet, I regret to say. These things seem to take an age.

The hydraulic pump restoration was completed today and it is ready to go back in when the rest of the housing is re-filled with gubbins. For now it is on the bench, probably unbelieving of it's good fortune.

Let me start by saying that this TE P 20 has been in pretty poor condition just now. It came with the wrong back end, no hydraulic brakes, missing bumper and front fenders. No lights (only the brackets) etc. It certainly didn't actually run or anything like that.

When we first saw this tractor, we really had no knowledge of Industrial versions of the TE 20 series. We suspected we may have something special here, but had no idea just how unusual it is. We have it on good autority from one expert that we cannot have a TE P 20 because there are non left. I guess the ID plate on the steering column belies that statement, if nothing else. we did give the old owner an extra few bob on the basis that we could see it was no a common tractor. He had no idea either.

The picture here, is one from a Ferguson book showing the way it looked before the Council Conversion.

An exploded view

And this is the Council Conversion

Note the change in front wheels aqnd tyres too!

The effect of the Council Conversion was to add the Central (cyclops) head lamp, and the lower right headlamp in the grill, mounted to the bonnet side panels. This accomodated the Ferguson High Lift loader, which was a common requirement for Council Work which often involved road engineering work, loading salt spreaders in winter, moving big things around Council Yards and so on. Fitting the Loader, of course, necessitated the removal of the removable front fenders for the duration of the period that the Loader was in use. They could be replaced as soon as the Loader was Parked.

I have to admit to being in 2 minds about this conversion. I am keen to replace the missing front wings and their head lamps. The side-mounted headlamps in the photo are attached to the sides of the bonnet, rather than the tops of the wings. It looks so cute with those wings and lamps, don't you think?

Anyway, to continue, over the next few months, as time allowed, we got it running and used it around the yard as an Industrial tractor. We do like petrol tractors (which the TE P 20 is) for much the same reasons Mr. Ferguson did. Petrol engined tractors are ideal for the sort of work we have for a yard tractor, because of all the stop/starting that goes on. At the end of the day, the amount of petrol to do a little job like shifting a plough or other implement form one side of the yard to the other is just pence.

Since then, we have pulled the old thing to bits again in preparation for a complete restoration. We have acquired a pair of Industrial back axles for it along with a full set of industrial brake parts (again, rather in a state which could be best described as ripe for resoration). We have restored an hydraulic brake sytem before on an MF35 Industrial tractor, which is the same. We are buying a new set of engine piston, rings and liners for the engine, which we found had 1 cracked piston. We have found a replacement back end housing because the one that was fitted was from the wrong era and had the wrong differential.

I have a wish list for this tractor, which follows. Do give me a call on Freephone 0808 131 2867 if you have any of the items we could do with and want to find them a good home or could allow me to borrow to copy them:-

Industrial front wheels and tyres (see the pictures above).
Industrial rear wheel weights (mount to the inside of the rear wheels).
Industrial rear tyres (I have 1 which I MIGHT be able to use).
Industrial fenders (front and rear). They must be as the ones in this photo and it is easier to make new than repair old. Old, rusted, patterns would be useful though. There are plenty of semi-industrial wings about, I specifically need the Full Industrial type.
Industrial Tractor Instruction Book for the TE P 20, showing all the Industrial additions and elements.
TE 20 series FRONT BUMPER assembly

That's the full wish list for now.

Unusual round the battery box to accomodate the front wing (fender) retaining clips?

Also unusual around the lower part of the dash to prevent the hot air blast from the engine hitting the driver.

Registration number on the front on the original red paintwork. Records for this registration number has been lost by the East Riding local authority, so it is unlikely that we will be able to regain it.

Tractor Serial Number

The number 17 on the dash (17 in what fleet we still wonder?)

Hood open showing right hand head light bracket at the bottom, (accomodates the High lift Loader when the front wings are removed). This is part of a "Council" conversion which will have been fitted at some stage in the tractor's life. It was not part of the original specifiation, but was part of a genuine Ferguson "Optional extras" package for council work, where a tractor was used on the road a good deal in conjuction with a Ferguson High Lift loader.

Under hood showing lamp bracket mounting

General front view showing head lamp bracket at the bottom of the part of the grill which has been removed to accomodate the lower, right hand head lamp.

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