FERGUSON TE-F20
Ferguson anniversaries seem to abound in 2021. It is 85 years since the introduction of the Ferguson Type A in 1936 and 75 years since the launch of the TE-20; both tractors that changed farming forever thanks to the innovative Ferguson System of three-point linkage and hydraulic draft control.
Predecessors
Looking back, the Type A, built by Huddersfield based David Brown for Ferguson, was very much the first incarnation of a design that, although fairly crude in many respects, was still revolutionary. The essence of the tractor was then refined with the arrival of the Ford 9N in 1939. This was followed by the system achieving its full potential with the hugely popular Ferguson TE-20.
The Ferguson Type A was a success, despite its shortcomings. But the farming community, in Britain at least, was not yet ready to embrace this new technology fully in the depressed Thirties. It was also down to the fact that to get the very best from this little tractor, a whole range of special implements also had to be
