Originally Posted by
Hobbsy
I guess that was before Ferguson's were powered by Perkins engines. My brother in western Pa. has a Ferguson 35 powered by a three cylinder Perkins. Three cylinder and five cylinder engines are so smooth.
The engine was the Ferguson TEA20 engine used from 1947-1956. They had a lot of different engines available during this period depending on what fuel you wanted to use. They had gasoline, TVO (Tractor Vaporizing Oil, also know as petrol-paraffin or power kerosene.), Diesel, and lamp oil. Between WWII and the Suez War with Egypt gas supplies were spotty at best. I believe they started using the Perkins 3 cylinder diesels around 1957. The roaster engine was first developed for the Standard Vangaurd, which early models looked a bit like a Hudson only uglier.