Tractor & Farming Heritage

SUPER-6 AT 60

County Commercial Cars, based in Hampshire, entered the tractor building market almost by accident, but their crawler version of the Fordson E27N Major, sold as the County Full Track, or CFT, was so popular that the business soon turned increasingly to tractor production, making crawlers based on the Fordson New Major from 1951.

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Crawlers proved to be very profitable for the company and various versions, including extra-wide tracked and extended swamp crawlers, would be produced right into the Sixties. County also began dabbling in a wheeled version of the crawler, called the Four Drive, which, although successful in many export markets, did not sell well in Britain.

The Four Drive used the crawler method of steering and was basically a

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