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New set of questions, if you can answer any, that would be great...

Did all county 1174s with blue bodywork have blue cabs or was a white cab an option?...I've seen a few but wonder if this was standard ???

What colour is the cab interior? is the frame the same as the external? what about control panels etc?

I notice many have had the fuel tanks between the wheels removed and instead have a tank on the front platform....was this a factory option?

And lastly, the 1174 appears to have come with either the 6600 style grill or a rectangular affair...when did the swap occur?

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here you go rob  ;)

this is a pic of the FC that i used to drive , believe me there's nothing that would stop it .

look carefully at the lights & you'll see how deep the mud was that i had to travel through , on the back is a 1500ltr vacum tank built specialy for this machine , this is a W reg & the other was a V reg , not the best thing to have to work in all day , but at home time she'd get up to 18-19 mph.

on the rear is a 3 leg howard paraplow adapted to inject sludge / raw sewage to a depth of 18ins when it was time to move fields , a county 1184 was used to tow the sludge holding tank after me , the tank was an old artic tanker.

If the 1184 wasn't available i'd have to get someone out in the pick-up to take the paraplow & i'd have to tow the holding tank myself .

the tank on the front corner opposite the cab is an oil resorvior for the vac pump . the fuel tanks on this & the other were between the wheels , one on each side & had a pipe running between them for self leveling .

mine was fitted with "sugar cane" type tread tyres & the V reg was fitted with "michelin MX's"

only real problem with theses machines was if it got jammed in gear one of the front wheels had to be removed , not often happened on this one ,but the selectors were worn on the v reg ,so you'd have to be very carefull when selecting them.can't read it from here  but all dawes tractors had the drivers name on the door, & this one has mine on it  ;D

pic taken in 1991, in a field next to the A37 on the fosse way heading from yeovil > shepton mallet

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I hope to put a rear discharge muck spreader on it (no-ones yet responded to the question about dimensions in the bergman spreader thread though :( ) but whatever I put on, it will be detachable. This FC doesn't have a  3 point linkage and the rear frame is slightly longer (based on a real working example, which had a front tank). I'm hesitant to make the side tanks because if I did, I would want them in resin so if I wanted to make more FCs I would not have to remake them each time because they will be a pain - so I may fit a removable front tank to this one, which in the future may be changed.

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