SIXTY YEARS AN ICON THE COUNTY SUPER-4

Just over 90 years ago County Commercial Cars was formed. The company was based in Fleet, Hampshire, and began by converting Ford trucks to take larger and heavier loads by fitting extra driven and un-driven axles.

The business grew, and after the Second World War it converted Fordson tractors into crawlers. This became the core of the firm’s future. Crawlers for agricultural and industrial use were the mainstay of the business into the Sixties. It also continued to produce conversions of the Ford Thames Trader and D Series trucks plus a four-wheel-drive version of the Ford Transit.

Not a crawler

Crawlers were superb in tough conditions where a traditional wheeled tractor could just not operate, and kinder on the soil itself. The drawback with these machines was that they could not be driven on tarmac roads without damaging the road surface, and they were not particularly fast either! The need for a tractor with the tractive abilities of a crawler