Re: Porsche tractor

["Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>]

Rod wrote:

>I always understood that the block for the TR3 and TR4 came from a Massey-
>Ferguson tractor.


Sort of the other way around:  Standard Motors built the motor which
Ferguson used in the TEA 20 Ferguson tractor.  Most of the motor was pretty
much the same as the TR 2, 3, 4  and the Vanguard (?) sedans.
>
>Didn't Ferrari have some farm implements at one time?

There was a line of Ferrari tractors, mostly 4 wheel drive and adapted for
orchard and vinyard work . . . I'm pretty sure there was no connection to
THAT Ferrari, though.

Tony