SUPER AT 60
The Ford Motor Company first entered the lighter tractor market in 1957 when they introduced the new Dexta model alongside the existing Diesel Major.
Diversity
Since the very beginning, back in 1917, Ford had always been wedded to building a single tractor model, at least in Britain, but now, for the first time, two tractors of very different sizes were being produced at the huge factory in Dagenham and sold alongside each other through the Fordson dealerships.
The Dexta would remain on sale right up to 1964 and would see many changes in that time, the Diesel Major giving way to the Power Major in 1958, followed by the Super Major in 1960.
As the Dexta had been well designed to begin with, including being fitted with the
