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ItвЂ™s unclear when Massey Ferguson ceased to call the 35 the FE 35, but research has led me to believe it was soon after the change to the three-cylinder Perkins diesel engine, as product information from the time introduced the 3-A-152-engined model as the вЂFE 35 Tractor with New EngineвЂ™.

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After just one full year of production, the FE 35 would be given the MF re-branding treatment to become the more common red and grey farm tractor.

Initially sold with a blend of Ferguson grey tinwork and a striking gold skid unit this tractor is, unsurprisingly, now better known to us all as the вЂGrey & GoldвЂ™, or вЂCopper BellyвЂ™ for those living to the west of the Irish Sea. The engineers would need to come up with a new machine that retained the same vital statistics in terms of wheelbase and link arm geometry provided on the previous TE-20 models, which would render the TE-20вЂ™s implements вЂbackwardly compatibleвЂ™ yet innovate in other areas to ensure FergusonвЂ™s market dominance continued. Times were changing, the TE-20 was getting on in years but customers were sold on вЂ“ indeed, embedded in вЂ“ the entire Ferguson system. The problem that faced FergusonвЂ™s design engineers must have been extremely daunting. With a wide range of implements to complement these hugely capable tractors, Harry Ferguson had skilfully created an entire system of mechanised farming. By 1956, the TE-20 had been produced for some 10 years or so and had, quite literally, revolutionised farming throughout the developed world. Initially available from October 1956, the Ferguson 35 was launched into a market full of customers with almost impossibly high expectations. What IвЂ™m trying to say is that, before the FE 35, FergusonвЂ™s only previous model range was the TE-20. In evolutionary terms, itвЂ™s fair to say that the FE 35 (Ferguson, England, 35hp), was launched in the equivalent period where tractors had just begun to walk upright, but were still scraping their hairy knuckles along the ground! Every classic Massey Ferguson model can be traced backwards through its вЂDNAвЂ™. I usually start my buyersвЂ™ guides with a bit of a history lesson. BuyerвЂ™s guide: Ferguson 35: A fine example of a diesel-powered Ferguson 35, owned by Bob Newton.