The tractor was styled in the same streamlined manner as the 30 by Canadian architect Charles Brooks.

A Continental Motors Company 124-cubic-inch (2,030 cc) four-cylinder engine was initially used, but was replaced by a Continental 140-cubic-inch (2,300 cc) engine when early production models proved underpowered.

[6] In 1956 the Model 20 Deluxe Black Hawk was offered with refinements and a mostly cream-colored paint scheme with red chassis.

At the request of the United States distributor, a model with an offset engine, similar to the Farmall A or C tractors was offered, branded the Little Chief.

[1] Painted all-orange, the CO-OP E2 was a Cockshutt 20 rebranded for sale in the United States.