[AT] MM UDLX

[Rena Glover Goss]

The concept of the UDLX is much more popular in Europe than it ever became in the US. In Europe, all farm tractors  are equipped with fenders and mud flaps on all wheels, turn signals, hydraulic brakes, extra seating in the cab, and other features that make it suitable for general transportation.

Larry 
---- Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> The mention of the UDLX (car-ish tractor) triggered a memory of an old
> Dutch couple that lived near my maternal grandparents on the near-east side
> of Indy in the early 1950's. My grandparents knew them fairly well and said
> that they were pretty nice people "except" for the guy's excessive love of
> beer. It had cost him his driver's license a couple of times and they
> finally took it for a longer period of time. His wife didn't drive at all
> so to get around they drove their old MM tractor. I think it may have been
> a ZTU or something that looked much like one. It had the big wide fenders
> and a more full platform than later tractors like my MM-R. I remember
> seeing them headed for church one Sunday morning, her all nicely dressed
> and him in his suit and tie. I don't think the tractor ever got hosed
> off... I was just a kid but I was already well into tractors and I remember
> noticing how dirty it always was. Back then they were running on almost all
> gravel roads in big clouds of dust. That had to be bad on their best
> clothes.
> They only lived maybe 3 miles from their church and from a small town with
> a reasonably complete down-town.
> They sure could have used a UDLX.  :-)
> 
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> Francis Robinson
> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson46176 at gmail.com