thedawnpatrol Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Hy Guys a mate of mine has just bought a 1950's Ferguson Tractor and found a Ministry of Supply plate. I wondered if anyone could give any more details please. the plate reads:- MINISTRY OF SUPPLY TRACTOR LAND UTILITY 4X2 CONTRACT No 6VEHS14175CB286 CHASSIS No TED 363306 VEHICLE No 23 BY 34 cHEERS Jules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbatiti Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I expect someone will be along and may be able to tell you more about the tractors military history but I can tell you from the chassis number quoted that it has a Vaporising Oil engine (the 'D' in 'TED' indicates this) and it was built in 1953. Alan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 I know of another Fergie TED, ex-army. A bit earlier than this one. Still got the army Pyrene fire extinguisher bracket on the mudguard. They would have been used for tasks such as mowing and general land maintenance around barracks and bases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Ministry of Supply obtained vehicles for Goverment departments, including Ministry of Ag and Fish and Ministry of Defence departments such as Chertsey and Fort Halstead, so may not be strictly military, but could have a connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbatiti Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Done a bit more digging and can tell you the Ferguson in question was made on 26th November 1953, one of 220 TE20s made on that day! (Information courtesy of The Friends of Ferguson Heritage) Quite often they can even tell you if the tractor was manufactured on the night or day shift too... Alan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Ministry of Supply obtained vehicles for Goverment departments, including Ministry of Ag and Fish and Ministry of Defence departments such as Chertsey and Fort Halstead, so may not be strictly military, but could have a connection. Tony, Check the plate, it has an Army VRN as do the do others I have seen locally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 (edited) Must get eyes tested. Just looked up MOS on Wiki.The few vehicles I've seen with that MOS plates have been odd ones such as a Disiel engined RL supplied to a research unit for instrument testing, though they had a very wide remit. Intresting little snippet: Off wandering around the net came across this: http://www.ukwarcabinet.org.uk/organisations/2 Edited April 16, 2014 by Tony B Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wally dugan Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 ANY information on this tractor may be held by the ROYAL ENGINEERS MUSEUM CHATHAM sadly they hold very little on this sort of equipment A freedom of information request will throw up little or no information THE RLC MUSEUM RECORDS FINISH at the BS series as BY series were engineers equipment on this card system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedawnpatrol Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 Thank you to everyone who has answered this question. We certainly know a bit more now. Cheers Jules Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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