It was known as the DX project within the company of Massey Ferguson. It was a radical redesign of the Massey Ferguson tractor line-up, and it was to be a global design that would be produced and sold globally with only small regional modifications to suit special applications. The people at MF knew it as DX but the rest of the world would know it as the 100 Series, when it was finally launched towards the end of 1964.
Tough act to follow
At the beginning of 1964, the Massey Ferguson tractor line-up sold in Britain was much as it had been since the end of 1957 when the red and grey 35 and 65 models were launched under the new Massey Ferguson name. The 35 was, to all intents and purposes, identical to the Ferguson 35 that had been produced in grey and gold since it replaced the TE-20 in 1956, and had been powered by a four-cylinder, Standard Motor Company engine, this more recently being replaced by a more modern Perkins three-cylinder engine in 1959.
The 65, on the other hand, was a new larger model for the British market in 1957 as it was based on the North American Massey-Harris 50, which itself was based on more powerful versions of the TO-30 produced in
