A nice development from the old Fordson Super Major with some really nice design features. It was a bit exotic too, if a tractor can be exotic. As a farmer's son at the time I knew a bloke in the village who had a Ford 2000, but you never saw a Ford 5000, they were monster machines. We got a 3000 in about 1973 and a few years later a 4000 - but 5000's - never saw one. I always preferred the Ford tractors to the Massey Fergusons, they were more comfortable and a lot easier to use. Less technically clever, but very powerful and nice to drive. We had a Fordson Power Major once that had a six cylinder engine from a lorry - hell that could pull.
The model on the left is made up of two of these, the rebuild story is below.
On one of them the hydraulics wouldn't stay up and the whole bonnet/steering bit was loose and did not work, still it was in nice condition. The other one was a wreck, but had some bits that the other did not and everything worked. Both of these were effectively free, coming in mixed lots where the other items that I really wanted made up the price of the auction - if you follow me. I thought there were enough components here to make one good tractor without any repainting.
