Roadless was the other British company who, like County, converted Fordson tractors to half tracks, crawlers or in later years four wheel drive. Whilst County went down the equal wheeled route, Roadless teamed up with Selene and used converted, ex-US army, axles from GMC trucks, buying up parts from all over Europe and, after stocks ran out, designed their own units. They also built an equal wheeled tractor, the Roadless 115 and Roadless 120.
The crawler on the left of the picture is a Roadless J17 based on the Fordson Major E1ADDN with rubber-jointed tracks. These tracks had no track pins as such but had solid rubber blocks between each section, held in place by two large bolts.
They were silent when running but very dangerous when you had to split that track to work on anything. We had a special tool kit to release the tension when we took the bolts out but, as the tracks natural shape was to lay flat, it was quite a struggle to get the two halves close enough together to fit the special tool, when refitting them.
The New Performance Super Dexta with Roadless Four wheel drive is a pretty rare tractor, there were less than 100 made and I have one just down the road from me in our village. Great little tractor but, as with the Dexta version, they were abused and overloaded most of their life resulting in failures of the drop box castings between gearbox and rear axle and front dif problems.
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