1919 fordson

I have a buddy at work that said his dad has a 1919 fordson tractor.
I would have liked to have seen a picture of such a beast, but the guy forgets to bring one in (all the time). Does anyone out there have a picture they can post?

Mutt

(quoted from post at 00:12:57 08/23/08) I have a buddy at work that said his dad has a 1919 fordson tractor.
I would have liked to have seen a picture of such a beast, but the guy forgets to bring one in (all the time). Does anyone out there have a picture they can post?

Mutt

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Just click on this...

http://images.google.com/images?sou... fordson tractor&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Never had to worry about flats back in the day :lol: 8)

Thank you guys!

The pictures are worth a million words.
Now down to a more serious subjet.
Is the fordson a home breed of Henry Ford?
Was it one of his sons that took the car and turned it into a tractor?

Just curious.

Mutt

Google is your friend 8)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordson_tractor

(quoted from post at 00:34:32 08/23/08) Google is your friend 8)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordson_tractor

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Good Post!!

Good Reply!!!

Http://www.google.com Is my friend!!!

(quoted from post at 23:38:01 08/22/08)

(quoted from post at 00:34:32 08/23/08) Google is your friend 8)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordson_tractor

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Good Post!!

Good Reply!!!

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The information highway....Has it all

One mean tractor, one mean purpose.

Mutt, a beast it is, 4 inch bore and a 4 inch stroke. Big motor ran slow speed but a lot of tork, The rear end was a screw drive. One did not need brakes. Some of my friends have them, have seen them pull a plow Awsome is the only word that comes to mind.
Joe

Why the "Fordson" brand?

Since 1908 the Dodge brothers had been making parts for the Model T. They made almost everything except the body, which Henry bought from somebody else, and for a long time Henry just assembled the cars.

Henry had originally tried to get the Dodges to make parts and get paid only when the cars sold, but the Dodges refused and demanded to be paid cash on delivery. Henry got them to agree to defer payment by giving them 10% of the stock in the Ford Motor Co. He'd already presided over the failure of two previous car manufacturing companies, and probably thought that 10% would never be worth very much.

John and Horace Dodge kept trying to get Henry to improve the Model T by adding a distributor, a sliding-gear transmission and a water pump, but Ford refused. He wanted to keep making the cars the same forever. So in 1914 John and Horace told him they were going to quit making parts for him and manufacture their own car. Of course, their 10% of the common stock was paying them big dividends by then, and Henry didn't like the idea of the Dodges using those dividends to finance their new car company, so he tried to turn the FoMoCo into a non-profit corporation that wouldn't pay any dividends and transfer the profit making operations to a new corporation, the Fordson Co. The Dodge Bros. sued Henry and prevented him from doing so. Then Henry had to cash the Dodge Bros. out for millions and millions.