PART THREE
In the two earlier instalments of this series, we saw how the designs of farm tractor emerging on the British market at the very beginning of the 1960s were basically like what had gone before – the majority of which were also built in Britain itself.
We then saw how the middle of the decade saw a seismic shift in how farm tractors were designed and built, with a whole raft of new models from the major manufacturers launched in 1964 and 1965.
At the same time, different manufacturers from outside the UK were beginning to launch their products on the British tractor market from the middle of the 1960s.
Now, in our final look at the tractors of the 1960s, we turn our attention to the final three years of a decade that changed the agricultural tractor forever.
NEW MODELS & NAMES
From 1964 through to 1966 the two biggest names in the British tractor industry, Ford and Massey Ferguson, both introduced new tractor ranges, with the smaller manufacturers such as David Brown and Nuffield following suit, albeit in a smaller way.
At the same time, previously rather unknown names were making inroads into the British tractor market with the likes of Zetor, Ursus, Dutra, and others now being represented in the UK. Others, such as John Deere, that had not had a presence for some time, were now becoming a larger force in the tractor sales league in Britain.
All these trends would continue as the last three years of
