Would anyone know what the serial number of the last built 43 tractor was?
MF last banner lane tractor...
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Ducati899
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Sure I seen it in a recent classic tractor,I’m not near them at the minute so can’t look though
I thought I’d seen an article somewhere but couldn’t quite remember where!
Ducati899
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I’m thinking within the last 3 months
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It is in a museum I believe. Not that it is much help to your question.
76masseyman
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L51224 for the tractor, and 46452 for the cab.
Thankyou!!!
Can you tell what date they were built by the serial?
from the previous post the cab is within 600 and the tractor is about 4,000 off....must of been building a lot of rops tractors at the end???
The last Banner Lane tractor was an MF4345 which came off the final build track on Christmas Eve 2002.
Beauvais continued to build 4300 series tractors during 2003 using Banner Lane supplied transmissions and axles until the factory finally closed around July that year. I am not sure of the number of 4300 series produced by Beauvais in 2003.
Beauvais continued to build 4300 series tractors during 2003 using Banner Lane supplied transmissions and axles until the factory finally closed around July that year. I am not sure of the number of 4300 series produced by Beauvais in 2003.
Ahh ok, I’m looking at a 43 series, but it has a grey cab which I’m told means it is a Uk tractor, I was just trying to work out how late it was.....
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The letter tells you the year, would need to see if I can find out what they mean in one of my books
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76masseyman
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You can, but not sure how, someone will come along with that info’ I’m sure. Serial number on one of mine means November 76 so I’m told, but I’m non the wiser.
The last Banner lane tractor was L51224 so following the above,t'was the 224th tractor built in the 51st week of 2002.
No mention of cab numbers.
Maybe this will let you work it out for the one you're looking at @Battlefield Machinery ?
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Banner Lane serial numbers have a letter and a two digit number at the beginning. The letter is the year ( L was the last year of production 2002) and the number is the week of the year. The remaining numbers are the number of machines made that week.
Therefore L51224 was the 224th tractor built in week 51 of 2002.
The last tractor came off the line about 2.30 pm on December 24th 2002. It was signed by all those who built it and it then joined the internal museum collection until that was dispersed in 2006. We were determined the last tractor should stay in Coventry and an agreement was reached with the Coventry Transport Museum to take three tractors from the collection. The half millionth TE 20 ( TEF500,000), the MF 65 MK2 prototype, and the last tractor built.
Others in the collection went to the Beauvais plant for display in the then new technology centre, the remainder went and still remain in the excellent Coldridge Collection of Mike Thorne's in Devon.
All tractors left the Banner Lane site except the last tractor. We wanted the last tractor to ever leave that site to be the last one made. We wanted it to do so under its own power not on a truck.
And that's what we did, it drove out of the factory gates on trade plates on Friday 6th of October 2006 across town to the Transport museum where it remains today. I was the driver.
All 4300 series made in Banner Lane have grey cabs. Those assembled in Beauvais through 2003 using transaxles made in Banner Lane had black cabs and a serial number beginning with M.
Therefore L51224 was the 224th tractor built in week 51 of 2002.
The last tractor came off the line about 2.30 pm on December 24th 2002. It was signed by all those who built it and it then joined the internal museum collection until that was dispersed in 2006. We were determined the last tractor should stay in Coventry and an agreement was reached with the Coventry Transport Museum to take three tractors from the collection. The half millionth TE 20 ( TEF500,000), the MF 65 MK2 prototype, and the last tractor built.
Others in the collection went to the Beauvais plant for display in the then new technology centre, the remainder went and still remain in the excellent Coldridge Collection of Mike Thorne's in Devon.
All tractors left the Banner Lane site except the last tractor. We wanted the last tractor to ever leave that site to be the last one made. We wanted it to do so under its own power not on a truck.
And that's what we did, it drove out of the factory gates on trade plates on Friday 6th of October 2006 across town to the Transport museum where it remains today. I was the driver.
All 4300 series made in Banner Lane have grey cabs. Those assembled in Beauvais through 2003 using transaxles made in Banner Lane had black cabs and a serial number beginning with M.
Thankyou very much chaps, that’s spot on !!!