The Road-Less Travelled
The Roadless Fordson is an exciting machine, it takes the well-established Fordson name and puts some heavy duty icing on top. It gives us a go-anywhere classic tractor, which is both highly collectable and also still more than capable of tackling most everyday farm or forestry tasks.
The right track
Looking at the Roadless tractor conversions we can roughly divide them up into three categories: full track, halftrack, and four-wheel drive conversions. different makes of tractor were converted by Roadless but by far their best-known conversions took place on Fordson tractors.
Roadless’ first conversion on a Fordson tractor came about for a commission to provide a vehicle capable of working on a beach for Margate Corporation. Roadless took a Standard Model N Fordson and converted it to run on full tracks, successfully turning a small farm tractor into an all-terrain crawler. By 1931 Roadless conversions were approved by the Ford Motor Company, with Roadless agreeing to both supply Fordson Model N tractors as complete tracked machines and to sell
