Heritage
DEXTA & SUPER DEXTA
COVER STORY
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workmate The Fordson Dexta was Dagenham’s answer to the ‘grey menace’, otherwise known as the rising tide of Ferguson TE-20 tractors found on British farms. Stuart Gibbard details its development and lists all the main model changes
Lewis McBride’s 1961 Fordson Dexta ‘facelift’ model and his father Lee’s 1962 Fordson Super Dexta. Both machines were restored by Lewis, who runs his own tractor restoration business, L. McBride Tractors & Machinery, at Altrincham in Cheshire (Tel: 07788 628 184). Photo: Ken Topham
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