Weeks

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Weeks-Dungey Manufacturing Co.

William Weeks and Son were an agricultural engineering company based at Maidstone, Kent, and around 1915 they agreed to build a tractor for a local fruit and hop grower by the name of Dungey. The first Weeks-Dungey tractors were extremely lightweight machines with an exposed four-cylinder engine at the front and a large cylindrical water tank next to the driver's seat at the rear. Encouraging sales resulting from limited production of this machine led to the development of a revised "New Simplex" model around 1918. This was a somewhat more substantial tractor, with a fully-enclosed engine compartment with Waukesha engine, front-mounted radiator and three forward speeds. It is not clear how many of these tractors were built, but production ended in 1925.