"Overseas a Minneapolis-Moline Factory was established in the 1950's and named,
Minneapolis-Moline Turk Tractor Factory AS. The factory was located in Ankara, Turkey and began producing the M-M Model UTSD at first, then sometime afterword they changed the production to the Model
M-M 445 (with D-206-4 Engine) until the 1960s."
"When the Turkish agreement was made M-M scrounged up discontinued parts to fulfill the agreement. So probably platforms were made to fit. Not sure if the tractors to be shipped to Turkey were stripped down versions or complete. The tractors that made it to Turkey were repowered and redisigned so not sure how many and in what state they were shipped."
"In 1956 the UTSD Special appeared with production of only 300. The Specials had different hoods with removable side panels flat grill and different front bolster. The Special was made to allow for power steering. Some people have said that the Specials did not have any of these options."
"All diesels used the 283 ci motor. The Specials had disc brakes and different platforms.
The previous UTSD had the same tin and drum brakes like the standard gas UTS. The
later U diesels had large wheatland fenders. Another variation of the diesels were the
UTSD-M (military) approximately 1700 diesels were made for the military or for export
from 1954-1958."
"UTSD-M uses the Robert Bosch inline pump. It has different drive gears and 17 different components to run pump. Last ones sold a few years ago went for $2800 and $2000 (2013) at auction. Unknown how many actually went to Turkey. I once emailed a fellow in Turkey and he said he didn't know of any that were ever shipped to Turkey. Turkey had parts shipped from M-M and they made their own U diesels. When the Turkey deal fell through most UTSD-M's were shipped to Canada and sold off as regular diesels."
"Some have said that M-M records indicated UDS tractors (not UTSD), were U.S. built for export to Turkey, Greece, Spain, and a few other countries, possibly South America."
*"Models with 108 prefix in Serial Numbers were UTSD-M Models meant to be exported to Turkey to fulfill an agreement. Some were shipped to Turkey but the agreement fell through and the remaining diesels were shipped to Canada and the Dacotas. There was a total of "558 with 108 Serial Numbers." Oddly they used the older components and none of the upgrades of the Specials. They also used the Robert Bosch inline pump not the standard American Bosch injection pump."
