Question about a tractor

[AdagatiyaWaya]

My papaw had a ford tractor looked similar to an 8n or jubilee but engine and drive train was blue not red fenders and hood were gray. Anyone have a clue?

 

[dusty3030]

They switched to blue in the 800’s at some point.

 

[Jstpssng]

I've always wondered about Ford and Ferguson colors. (There's never been a question about John Deere... they've always been green with envy. )

This is from a vintage tractor site; True Colors of Vintage Iron - Farm Collector

When the machinery was shipped to Cork, Ireland, to build the
Irish models, some reports suggest that the first Fords produced
there had gray bodies with black wheels. The response was
apparently negative, and the decision was made to revert to red
wheels. But when the English Ford N came out of the plant at
Dagenham, England, in 1932, a new scheme was unveiled: dark blue
body with orange wheels.


That color scheme continued until 1938, when the decision was
made to paint the tractors (body and wheels) yellow-orange. During
the early years of World War II, however, the bright-color Fordsons
were easy targets for German bombers. The decision was quickly made
to paint all British Fordsons (new and old) green. The camouflage
worked: The tractors blended in with the countryside and further
tractor losses were minimized.

After hostilities ceased, Fordson returned briefly to the
pre-war scheme of blue body and orange wheels, until 1953, when the
Fordson Major Diesels were introduced. On that model, the body was
light blue and the wheels were light orange. Finally, until the end
of Fordson production, the wheels became the light gray of the Ford
tractors of the same years. Actually, the Fordson Super Major of
1964 was the same color as the Ford 5000.

 

[John0829]

Actually (for Ford ag tractors) the blue color was introduced in 1963 when they changed the number designation to the thousand series (2000 & 4000), from 1948 up until that time the colors had been the red, grey most people are accustom to seeing and prior to that the tractors were all battleship grey.

When the color change to blue was made many dealers at the time repainted any of the older model tractors to the new blue, grey color scheme to help with sales of the older models still on their lots. Don't know how the ones across the pond were painted.