One of Britain's most popular post-war tractors. The Nuffield Universal. A collectors item these days !! #farming #tractors #nuffieldfarming #nuffield #history amzn.to/3UAPwdg
50 years ago I drove them for neighbours, they were a fabulous tractor in their day. I’m not a farmer but I really would love to have one. Keep up your channel.
My neighbour had a Nuffield 10/ 60 very fast tra tractor on the road .This tractor is still parked up in a neighbours yard..Great video it might get young people interested in the vintage tractors.
My 460 is still working, here in Ontario, Canada. It is coupled to a bushog and I use it to mow the field twice a year. The power steering doesn't work though. So I use my power arms. I am surprised by its fuel efficiency. 🙂
I drove a universal four ,later the four sixty, in hay season it was used for raking and baling it had the BMC four with a five speed gearbox, for the five years i worked with it the only breakdown i had was having to replace the half shaft seals , in later years i used a ten sixty and was always off the paddock with gearbox problems, i found the universal four to be one of the toughest and most reliable tractors i have ever used, cheers from Tasmania
The original Nuffields were painted green. Several prototypes were put in field adjacent to the London - Birmingham railway line with the intention that Lord Nuffield would see them. He complained he had not seen his tractors from the train. Poppy red was adopted to make them more visible. The design team was motivated to correct problems identified on the FORDSON E27N that began production in 1945? The control layout was the result of an orthopedic surgeon's involvement. This gave rise to the off-set to the RHS of the steering steering wheel and the two differentiated hydraulic control leavers and their shape and location. The Nuffied seat was mounted on a large rubber cone which absorbed some shocks experienced in work. The seat had a wrap back and side feature. It was well ahead od competition from FORDSON and Ferguson. The transmission position was raised to increase ground clearance. [The FORDSON E27 N was being criticised for the poor underbelly clearance]. It also provided for mid mounted mowers. These were visible in work without turning. I believe the five speed transmission was taken from a BREN GUN CARRIER. I know Dr Merritt was responsible for the drive line. The Nuffield had better steering than the E27N being lighter and with a smaller turn radius. Nuffield were also available with a bar axle and a single front wheel. The tricycle wheel arrangement was a feature that was dropped when the diesel was introduced. The steering linkage was revised and simplified. The lower links of the rear linkage were quickly removed from a Nuffield this was an advantage for towed PTO equipment The BMC MINI tractor was developed by Harry Ferguson Research. It was a seperate design company set up by Ferguson who made arrangements with BMC. The BMC Mini unique draft control system was the invention of Frank Inns. It was used because the engine was too low powered. to involve a more power consuming hydraulic system. A feature never exploited on the BMC Nuffield MINI was a mid PTO access point. Following the halt of production in the UK the MINI was produced in Turkey and sold as the Austin and painted Marshal Yellow. The Nuffield upgrade when the fuel tank was moved in front of the tractor was also the work of Ferguson Research. They and FORD copied John Deere for the tank location. Unknown to them John Deere were looking to move away fromthe front fuel tank position. The front tank resulted in diesel being spilled over the radiator and was difficult to access with cans of diesel. Operators had to balance on the front axle with the can of diesel Eventually Ford Series 40 and the Deere adopted ground level diesel fill. This had been identified as a key feature by operators. The was a feature Cat claimed for their first TLB.
Another great video.In the early 1970,s 3 brothers near me put a 6 cylinder lorry engine in their fathers Nuffield,they had to extend the chassis to hold the radiator.I think mcGee,s in Ardee were Nuffield agents at one time..
You only briefly mention the Universal 3 (3DL) at 8:39 when you mention that it has a vacuum governor. The 3DL preceded the 342 with the two being very difficult to distinguish between except for the vacuum governor being fitted to the 3DL. At 8:48 the engine introduced as a 460 shown looks like a 3DL as it clearly has a vacuum governor and is 3 cylinder.
Dad got a 4/65 in around ‘71 or ‘72. It did the pit with a bamford buckrake. It had a David Brown loader fitted and had good hydraulics. My memory was the pto power was poor compared to a 990 or a 165. It also had a fibre glass weather cab.
The school I went too had two 460s and a new 465 along with a couple of Massey 135s and a new DB 990 or 995, I can’t remember. The Nuffields were good tractors and probable better than Fordson but Fordson had the market cornered here in Australia. Nuffields were a dairy farmers tractor and didn’t find their way into broad acre country much. The 465 you showed didn’t look the same as the one I was familiar with and the colour scheme was different. I have never seen another one here. Jeff.
Ballyhaunis co.mayo. he made a living at it. Hard work. He picked it up of the boat in Dublin. And drove it back down to mayo. I had to stay in bed for about three days. He was that cold.
The M4 was meant to be started on gasoline and then switched over to kerosene. I drove one once as my father bought a neighboring farm that used it as their primary tractor. I think they were quite a popular model in Denmark. My farther also owned a Nuffield 4/65 at one point.
My grandad always loved the Nuffields, he had them well into the late 70s but he got alot of them converted to 6 cylinder bmc lorry engines, a cheap powerhouse at that time. By the way If you're ever up the Newry or county Armagh direction you'd be welcome to pop in and look at the Leyland 272 6 cylinder conversion that I recently bought my dad reckons at least 110hp.
I drove every model as the person I worked for loved them the last one was a Leyland 282 which I think it was the best one but 1065 was also good for it's time they were fast on the road
in the mid 1960s I drove a 1060 I think it was just a query did they come out with a decompresion leaver just behind the motor fan or was it an earlier model
There was some come to New Zealand as the one I drove had the decompresion leaver on the front of the motor as we used it in the winter for cold starting. They were a great tractor all round and easy to drive.@@AgrimotiveFarmMachinery
We had a late 10/60 that we bought new but it didn't stay with us long because it had endless gearbox problems that the dealer never managed to get right so when the warranty ran out away it went. Many a time dad had to crawl home in bottom gear because that was the only gear it would actually go in. Pity really, because apparently engine wise it was really good. An old guy I knew (Now died sadly) who worked as a rep for a Nuffield agency said quality control was never the same after production moved to Bathgate.
