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Re: Porsche tractor

To: Paul Fitzsimmons <fitzsmns@mwci.net>
Subject: Re: Porsche tractor
From: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:09:27 -0400
Paul Fitzsimmons wrote:
> 
> I believe British Leland built tractors - Lelands.  Chris Mills from Appleton,
> WI collects them.
> Paul Fitzsimmons
> 
> JWoesvra@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > How many sports and racing car manufacturers had tractor/farm equipment
> > connections?
> >
> > Of course we already have delved into:
> >
> > Porsche - Porsche tractors
> > Lamborghini - Lamborghini tractors
> > Aston Martin - David Brown tractors
> >
> > How about:
> >
> > Ford - Ford and Fordson tractors (with Ferguson)
> > Ferguson - Jensen F/F & Novi-Ferguson - Massey-Furguson
> >
> > There must be a lot of others. What was the Standard-Triumph tractor that we
> > always refer to?
> >
> > BMC and Rootes must have had tractor divisions, but did they carry the same
> > name as a sports or racing car?
> >
> > Jack Woehrle


Is this your little joke, Paul?  -   or is the joke on me?

Re Rootes  -  I'm pretty certain they never built any tractors

But no one has yet mentioned Pegaso - they built both exotic cars and
tractors as well as their main product heavy duty trucks. Or was it
Barreiros that built the tractors in Spain?

And FIAT [in Italy of course].

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