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Re: Porsche tractor

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Subject: Re: Porsche tractor
From: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 14:17:15 -0500
Rod wrote:

>I always understood that the block for the TR3 and TR4 came from a Massey-
>Ferguson tractor.


Sort of the other way around:  Standard Motors built the motor which
Ferguson used in the TEA 20 Ferguson tractor.  Most of the motor was pretty
much the same as the TR 2, 3, 4  and the Vanguard (?) sedans.
>
>Didn't Ferrari have some farm implements at one time?

There was a line of Ferrari tractors, mostly 4 wheel drive and adapted for
orchard and vinyard work . . . I'm pretty sure there was no connection to
THAT Ferrari, though.

Tony



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