ON THE PULL!
Back in the early 1960s, if you were in the market for some real pulling power, or you needed a tractor that could forge its way through the most inhospitable of terrain, then a County Super-6 would surely have been at the top of your wish list. This machine, with its gutsy, six-cylinder engine and transmission system that drove all four of the large, equally-sized wheels at once, was unmatched at what it did.
Produced between 1962 and 1965 by the incongruously-named County Commercial Cars Ltd, based in Fleet, Hampshire, the Super-6 was the big, more expensive brother of the Super-4. These two, four-wheel-drive machines were the tractors that really propelled the company into the world of successful, volume production. They were eye-catching and unique machines in their day, but County had already achieved much before their arrival.
“Arriving in 1962, the new model was powered by the six-cylinder Ford 590E industrial engine that produced a thumping 94hp”
A fascinating tale
The story of the rise and fall of County Commercial Cars Ltd is a fascinating tale, and one worthy of a dedicated article in a future issue. The family firm was created by brothers Ernest and Percy Tapp in 1929, for the smallscale manufacture of a modified Ford truck. Conversions were at the heart of the business from the start, when the brothers had the brainwave of adding a second rear axle to
