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[Greg Vickers]

My 52 TEA has an aluminum hood, or bonnet. It is in pretty rough shape. I just picked up a used hood that is steel. When did they make the change? I assume the steel hood to be older.

 

[tractorfix]

Only the very early ones had aluminum hoods. Your 52 should have a steel hood.

 

[Greg Vickers]

Really... I would have figured it to be the other way around. My hood might have been replaced at one time I guess. My uncle backed into the one I have now (the aluminum one) and it is beyond repair. I picked up a steel one on Saturday for $100 bucks. Thanks.

 

[Bob (Aust)]

$100 is cheap buying. The bonnets/hoods were definately steel from around 1948.

 

[Anonymous-0]

My 49 is steel, seems he did you a favour.

 

[Geoff(NS)]

My 1952 TEA had an aluminum bonnet (side pieces in steel). Now replaced with steel. I am told that they used the aluminum when steel was hard to get during the post-war re-construction of the English economy.

 

[Jeff-oh]

My 48 TE-20 has a steel hood and an aluminum "T"- piece.

The '55 TEA I have been parting out has a steel hood.

 

[Jeff-oh]

My 48 TE-20 has a steel hood and an aluminum "T"- piece.

The '55 TEA I have been parting out has a steel hood.

 

[Ron in NS]

Since the aluminum bonnets are by far rarer than the steel ones, I'd not toss the old aluminum one away just yet, just in case it is repairable, and a collector needs it for a full restoration. Aluminum can be worked back into shape or sections formed and welded back in by someone who is good on an English Wheel and a tig welder.

 

[John (UK)]

They only fitted the aluminium hoods for a short period as they didn't have the steel, they were not strong enough and they soon started with the steel ones again. They did this in 1951/52/53 time, they also made fuel tanks as well and auxiliary fuel tanks on the diesels....John

 

[Greg Vickers]

Thanks guys. This site is a wealth of knowledge. Not just mechanical, but factual as well.