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Post by jose on Dec 27, 2002 2:19:25 GMT 1
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Post by jose on Dec 27, 2002 2:27:10 GMT 1
search in google only to find in Australia, and like tractorpulling in Holland.
built in Australia?
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Post by Red_Painter on Dec 27, 2002 3:05:05 GMT 1
Yes, it was an Australian built model. It filled an important horsepower catagory there, which fell between the British and American built models I think. There was quite a bit of machinery built or assembled Down Under in those days. IH had a factory building tractors and combines, Massey had a combine and implement factory at Sunshine and there were other Australian manufacturers making combines like Horwood Bagshaw and earlier Shearer. Of course the most significant tractor maker was the Chamberlain which was eventually replaced completely by John Deere overseas tractors after they had complete ownership and it was not practical to build the Chamberlain designed tractors.
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Post by jose on Dec 27, 2002 3:25:50 GMT 1
hey Red_Painter
these ford have engine ford? . and the transmission? . HP?
series 90 of the Chamberlains built by deere? . they to be painted in deere color
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Post by pudding on Dec 27, 2002 4:52:28 GMT 1
hey red painter, you are a man of great knowledge......
you are right the 8401 was an aussie......i never seen one.......come across the specs on one, and am kicking myself for not keeping them and putting them on my site...........i think waltana actually built 4wd out of ford engines and other bits and they were tried in US.....waltana also built the track marshal tm200 (rubber track)
acremaster 4wd from aussie was also tried in the red and black liverly
chamberlain?.....the famous 90 series (the green machine), had a few sg2 cab parts, JD engine, JD 4wd front axle (90 series was the first chamberlain to have 4wd), it was green, the it was a 'merger' tractor, trying to merger chamberlain buyers into the JD marque
some say chamberlain was brought by JD to pic up the dealership network in Austrailia
there are chamberlain specs on my website (sorry no 90 series thou)........they were an awesome tractor.........early ones had next to no brakes, very fast road speeds, and some had detriot motors if my memory serves me well
IH from down under./.....yes NZ got the aussie built ones.......the farmall M and H assembled in NZ (had different wheel centres etc).......our IH line up was European sourced as well......big tractors still came from the US........
MF had a austrailian plant........for implements and harvesters, we have a austrailian built MF cultivator at home
there are a bunch more from austrailia too
laters
pudding
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Post by JH on Dec 27, 2002 10:34:02 GMT 1
Hey Jose.  The 8401 model at the picture was a model built only for the Australien market. The short story is that there was a need for this kind of tractor to fill the gap between the 7700 and 8700/Tw10 models. Its built on a 6700 chassis mated to a defulled Tw10 engine, all assembled from Basildon (England) to Austraila, The cabine was built by Ford in Australia, I beleive at there truck factory in Waltanna. The model on the pictureis a red stripe model with increased horsepower, that was introduced later. Around 1980 SEM - south essex motors, a little factory with close connection with Ford, made another 8401 model for valuation - Ford decided to use County`s prototype - that was later known as the 8200. For a short period in 1981 both the 8100 and 8200 was at sale, both bulit by County, but very different machines, fx. the 8100 used the Dorset truck engine, while the 8200 used the 6,6 l tractor engine. JH |
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Post by kenjar on Dec 27, 2002 17:17:13 GMT 1
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Post by jose on Dec 27, 2002 18:19:26 GMT 1
thanks for your aid the series tw of ford built in basildon or in U.S.A.? |
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Post by kenjar on Dec 27, 2002 18:34:08 GMT 1
Hey Jose, The TW Fords were first built both at the Romeo plant in the US and in Antwerp, Belgium. Later all production was transferred to Antwerp. |
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Post by New Hollander on Dec 28, 2002 2:08:00 GMT 1
Hey Jose, I just put some pics on Farmphoto:  Note the Super Q cab on the 700 series, the Gason cab on the 700/710 series and 8401, the Carraro front axle on the 600 series, the black bonnet top and different style decalls on the 6700 and TW and of course the Waltanna built 225 crawler and Ford FW25/35 tractors. These are all Australian adaptions. New Hollander |
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Post by New Hollander on Dec 28, 2002 2:11:09 GMT 1
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Post by jose on Dec 28, 2002 2:31:52 GMT 1
hey New Hollander very good photos |
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Post by pudding on Dec 28, 2002 7:37:07 GMT 1
hey new hollander
great pics, i kinda lost touch with the southern hemisphere machines when i left college, unless ya in austrailia the info is kinda hard to dig out
i never seen the waltana rubber tracked crawler like that, the one i saw was not a high track model, you could retro fit cat 65d tracks onto it
laters
pudding
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Post by AB on Dec 28, 2002 17:50:32 GMT 1
very interesting to see the Ausie-moddels! Not much known about those, overhere (Western Europe)!
Nice to see the very large "TW-30" on the bonnet: so even the Australien-neighbours shout see the models in the large field....
I'll keep this topic in mind, nice!!
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Post by Woodbeef on Dec 28, 2002 23:58:59 GMT 1
Hey NewHollander,
Great pics!! Especially since last time I checked a globe,you lived a few miles from OZ!!
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