James Issitt owns several Massey Ferguson tractors in his collection in south Lincolnshire. The oldest – and the very first he ever owned – is a Ferguson TE-A 20, and a very fine example of what we might now call the second version of the TE-20, it is too!
James found it on the internet 10 years ago, being sold by someone near Tamworth. He rang the seller and found that it was indeed still for sale, but the next problem was getting from Lincolnshire to view it. However, as a truck driver, the following week he had a load of timber to take from the north to the Midlands, so it was pretty easy to make a slight detour to view the tractor.
Initial findings
It started and ran more or less OK. The tyres were perished, although the tinwork was very straight, albeit
