I didn't say they made 1.5 million of the 4000 and 5000's. I said that the my guestimate was that they built roughly that many thousand series tractors between their three plants... and I say guestimate because I don't know what Antwerp production was. US production is quite easily verified with the serial number start dates posted on this site. By my arithmetic, that would equate to roughly 375000-390000 units. My observations on this site over several years tells me that Basildon serial numbers for thousand series production were in the high 900's, so that equates to close to 900000 units. Even modest production at Antwerp would top the 1.5 mil mark. I don't have indivudual production numbers for those models, but I do know that the 4000 was the most popular followed closely by the 5000. Out of 7 tractors in the series, 3 of them coming much later, I don't think it unfair to assume that those two models comprised 1/3 to 1/2 the series production. Even if you wanted to compare US production alone for their entire series... from the 135 to the 1155 including all the industrial models, which spans a couple more years than the Ford thousand series run and a slightly larger power range, MF still comes out at under 400000 units. That's based on the starting serial numbers plus a fair assumption of the year's production based on previous years. Obviously not exact. That information comes from the serial number listings for both on this site, accurate or not. If one added Ford's 1976 production it would easily top that number.
All of that shows nothing really... other than to say that they were quite comparable on sales of their US produced tractors, with the probable edge going to Ford by a small amount.
I'm well aware that Coventry production was FAR above that, but so was Basildon production. Again, I'm sure that for the lot, they were quite comparable.
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