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I've read the threads on here regarding dating my Dexta, but i'm still unclear. Can anyone help????

Serial number 957E7005
Engine number (stamped number) 1470209
Clutch housing M11D Also stamped number next to flywheel peep hole 957E7505B
Gearbox L1D
Rear end L21D
Lift cover - Can't read
RH rear axle M11D
LH rear axle M6D

Any help much appreciated!

welderpaul wrote:Serial number 957E7005
Engine number (stamped number) 1470209
Clutch housing M11D Also stamped number next to flywheel peep hole 957E7505B
Gearbox L1D
Rear end L21D
Lift cover - Can't read
RH rear axle M11D
LH rear axle M6D

The first no you list is not the serial no, which is stamped vertically near the flywheel peep-hole.
Your tractor was build about Oct 1960. The engine # is consistent with this. Do you have your engine cast code (see sticky ^)?

Serial number is here, as Ben says.

Thanks very much Ben/Brian. The code on the engine is L300. October?

the serial no. normally starts with 09A or 09B , C or D , do you understand what I mean?

hello i'm back, have a look on Brians Dexta Register page and you will see what I mean

Brian Cox wrote:the serial no. normally starts with 09A or 09B , C or D , do you understand what I mean?

Engine serial number? Just had a look, no number of that format on there. Am i looking in the right place?

You have the correct nos, exc the last digit of your tractor # is incorrect - prob 8 not B?
Assuming above, your data is:
Tractor # 957E75058 (NB prefix 957E is correct for 1960) clutch cast code M11D (11/10/1960)
Engine # 1470209 (looks an Oct 1960 no)
Engine cast code L300 (30/10/1960)

So all your nos look spot on on my graphs. Your tractor was probably assembled in Nov/Dec 1960.

Does she have a road reg?

Just been out in the cold again...

The number hand stamped next to the peep hole is 957E67439.

The number 957E7505B is a cast mark on the opposite side to the hand stamped number.

That will teach me to scribble numbers down on oily bits of paper. Does this change anything?

She doesnt have a road reg.

welderpaul wrote:The number hand stamped next to the peep hole is 957E67439.
Does this change anything?

That tractor # fits my graph even better, so still a late 1960 tractor.

Thank you very much for that. Great to know the age of the old girl.

Hi Welderpaul, me again, I was on about the tractor serial no., this is stamped on the flange between the engine and gearbox, and yours will probably start with 09A

Brian Cox wrote:... yours will probably start with 09A

09A is a late 1961 tractor - I've got one!

sorry Paul, I'm a numptie this time, fools rush in and all that jazz. Dexta 1960 was 957E 44432 to 71920