Massey Ferguson’s 100 Series, the DX line, is the company’s best-loved range of tractors – with the 135 and 165 as the most popular models. It was designed at a time when two-wheel drive was still the norm, and indeed the 500 Series that followed did not have a driven front axle at the heart of its design.
It would be the 1980s, and tractors like the MF 698/698T, 699, and 3000 Series, when Massey Ferguson truly utilised four-wheel drive technology, but four-wheel drive was available for the 100 Series in various forms should you have required the benefits of such a configuration.
In the UK, there were no factory-fitted four-wheel drive models available, but solutions could be found to overcome the problem. Ford buyers, and International Harvester buyers for that matter, had their four-wheel drive needs covered by the likes of County Commercial Cars and Roadless Traction,
