Reekie Fergie

[Northdowns Martin]

I am in the process of renovating a Reekie ferguson and came across a picture of a similar tractor which had a blue 2" band around the bonnet. Is this significant to Reekie conversions?
Thanks for any help also any old photos of these tractors would be wonderful to see if they could be uploaded onto TFF.

 

[Mydexta]

I take it the tractor is a narrow version if it is a reekie conversion

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Yes it is 1951

 

[John 1594]

Should look something like this????

 

[Northdowns Martin]

That is one of the pictures I found which made me wonder if it was a Reekie trade mark.

 

[John 1594]

there also some "standard" width tractors about with a blue stripe on them, wonder if reekie also did a creep box conversion similar to the howard ones, and also painted those with a blue stripe?

 

[jre]

Look at the thread below on the Fife vintage ag. machinery club rally. We had 34 narrow tractors there including reekie ones. Link to our website and other photos and videos. will speak to local expert later about it.

 

[jre]

was told its a bit of a grey area. some had blue band some didnt. Some standard width fergys were exported to new zealand and some had a blue band. he thinks reekies may have used some that were destined for export with the blue band.

 

[Garysreekie]

Hi All , I just thought I'd add some pictures of my reekie that I've had since 2008 .

 

[Garysreekie]

When restoring this one I found under grey paint the original band of blue paint but with another reekie p3 that i had there was no signs of blue .

 

[sandy2210]

does any one on here know one of these with reg number FSR 408 i would love to track it down or i could give the current owner a bit of its history

 

[Mydexta]

does any one on here know one of these with reg number FSR 408 i would love to track it down or i could give the current owner a bit of its history

Would that have been registered in Angus????

 

[Garysreekie]

That reekie P3 I sold to someone down south a few years ago might have had that registration but the painted reg on the back end had worn away so much that you couldn't see any letters/numbers. I could maybe get in contact with the guy I sold it to and see if he has found out the reg of it . As for the pictures of the reekie above i know that a Mr James Maxwell Donaldson from Innerleith farm lady bank fife once owned , would be great to find out if he is still with us as with many fergie / reekie tractors there's was once a livelihood as well.

 

[sandy2210]

Would that have been registered in Angus????

yes it would have been as it worked not far from there between perth and dundee

 

[sandy2210]

the petrol engine was not the original but came out of a rolled standard police car i think i could find the buried remains of it

 

[MrNoo]

There were a couple of Reekie conversions sold down this way at a farm auction a couple of years ago, no blue bands on them but they looked to have been brush painted in their time. These had the welded up rear trumpets, not the best of welding by the looks of it, I was tempted but they made over 2k a piece and werent in the best of condition at all.
Am sure Friends of Ferguson can help out re reg numbers and knowing of where tractors are etc if they have them on their records, they are pretty good with things like that.
I have a red band on my ploughing tractor and have seen a few like it too, I did it to mine because I liked it but am sure there must be a reason why others had a red band??

 

[Garysreekie]

Sandy you mentioned that the engine was not the original one are you referring to FSR 408 that you know of or actually my own reekie ,?

 

[sandy2210]

sorry its the fsr 408 that i was refering to

 

[mikep]

There were a couple of Reekie conversions sold down this way at a farm auction a couple of years ago, no blue bands on them but they looked to have been brush painted in their time. These had the welded up rear trumpets, not the best of welding by the looks of it, I was tempted but they made over 2k a piece and werent in the best of condition at all.
Am sure Friends of Ferguson can help out re reg numbers and knowing of where tractors are etc if they have them on their records, they are pretty good with things like that.
I have a red band on my ploughing tractor and have seen a few like it too, I did it to mine because I liked it but am sure there must be a reason why others had a red band??
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[Jim Donaldson]

That reekie P3 I sold to someone down south a few years ago might have had that registration but the painted reg on the back end had worn away so much that you couldn't see any letters/numbers. I could maybe get in contact with the guy I sold it to and see if he has found out the reg of it . As for the pictures of the reekie above i know that a Mr James Maxwell Donaldson from Innerleith farm lady bank fife once owned , would be great to find out if he is still with us as with many fergie / reekie tractors there's was once a livelihood as well.

Hi my name is James Maxwell Donaldson but it would be my dad you referred to in your post, unfortunately he is no longer with us but I remember him proudly telling us that “the old grey fergie “ was one of the first Reekie conversions carried out at Ladybank. As he eventually bought other tractors it was put into semi retirement and only brought out when an extra tractor was needed. My brothers and I learned to drive on it,probably about 10 or 11 years old