Grey fergie history

[12 bore]

Hi all

I have had my 1948 Tea20 for about 13 years now and have never got round to finding anything out about her history, the registration prefix is JAH which looking at Norfolk council is the prefix for this area in April 1948. On dvla documents a fruit farm in Suffolk is listed as being a previous owner, I'm just wondering how I find out what dealer sold it if any previous owners when left production line etc. would I only be able to find this through friends of Ferguson we have a membership or is there any other way
Cheers Harry

 

[BJW1967]

I see this is a very old post and I don't know if you found the answers you were looking for. I too have a TEA20 My serial number is TEA62949. My prefix is JFM which was Chester City Council. I dropped them a line back in 1999 and got a response from the Chester Archive. They told me who my TEA20 was first registered to on 12 November 1948, but that is as far as I got with tracing the history. Mine is a P3 conversion and from the serial number on the engine, Perkins told me that my engine left their production line on 19 May 1957

 

[forblue]

Could you please refrain from calling a tractor a her, have you any proof this is the case on the other hand it may be a hymn more so when engine is running and would enable you to sing along with it.

 

[tomlad]

I do know my super dexta has decided to be gender neutral if that helps the argument

 

[Still Farming]

You got to take all the serial number on engine, steering column, dash, gearbox and back engine rubbings and send off to a club if I remember we did years ago and they get really excited with history.
Common to have different engines and backends as robbed or swapped or engines mixed with balers etc erc over time.
Interesting though.