Before Yugoslavia dissolved into seven separate countries (we’re counting Kosovo – live with it Serbia), it was a communist dictatorship like so much of Eastern Europe. And with the usual foibles of Communism, that meant magnificently unimaginative naming.
Cue the Industry of Machinery & Tractors (IMT) 533, a 33hp tractor licensed from Massey-Ferguson and built in large numbers from the 1950s and for decades thereafter.
This neat Lego example comes from Flickr’s Keko007, and pulls an equally neat wooden drop-side drawbar trailer. There’s more of the model to see at Keko’s ‘IMT 533’ album and you can head to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia via the link.
