[AT] Case 995

James Peck jamesgpeck at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 28 09:03:42 PST 2019


In MasseyFerguson at yahoogroups.com, a retired MF dealer discussed also selling David Brown tractors in the sixties because of  a Price advantage. 

( James Peck] Harry Ferguson partnered with David Brown in building his first tractor model, the Ferguson Brown Type A. He sold out to David Brown when he entered into partnership with Ford. I think I have a photo of the one displayed at The Henry Ford. David Brown had been a gearbox manufacturer.

 [ Cecil Bearden] David Brown was an old line English company that made many big drives for ships.  Their tractors were very well built and reliable.   In the early 70's I worked at a tractor shop that had been a David Brown dealer before Tenneco Case bought them out.  We had a DB 990 that had a Westendorf Loader and box blade on it that stayed out on rentals to a developer who built apartments.  The only problem we had with it was the clutch.  The flywheel had been re-surfaced, but the mounting bosses on the flywheel had not been resurfaced the same amount and so the clutch pressure was reduced.  After that problem was found we had no more problems. The transmission was  very well built and as I remember had herringbone teeth on the bull gears...  The 995 was the 990 after Case took over David Brown tractor production.

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