County Commercial Cars
From Graces Guide
County Commercial Cars were one of six companies in Britain who, in the 1950s, were specialist four-wheel drive companies. County Commercial Cars was the largest and most successful of the group.
- In 1929 the Tapp brothers had set up the company to build vehicles which were based on the Ford chassis.
- In 1948 they began tractor conversions and produced a tracklayer based on the Fordson E27N. They supplied fifty of these machines to the Ministry of Agriculture. This machine was known as the County Full Track.
- In the 1954 the first four-wheel drive conversion was achieved with the County Four-Drive which was based on the Fordson New Major.
- County went on to produce a range of unconventional tractors including the Sea Horse which was an amphibious version of the County Super-4. It earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records when it was driven across the English Channel from France to England.
- Nearly all of County's tractors were based on Ford tractors and were popular in the United Kingdom and abroad.
- The production in four-wheel drive tractors increased causing a reduction of tracklayer conversions for the County Co. with production ceasing in 1965.