Another Old Rust Picture

Bill(Wis)

Well-known Member
Anyone know where this is?
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Could be the light or the rust but that wheel center looks rounded more like an 8n rather than flat like a 9n but I could be wrong. No matter it is a cool picture.
 
Looks like one of those executive homes outside of Detroit that no one
can afford to live in anymore.
 
I make up trivia questions for the tractor club I belong to. You mention the wheels, radiator cap and battery hood. Could you please explain the differences between the 2n, 8n and 9n as for these features?
Thank you.
 
It sure was a nice house about 50 years ago. . . .I wonder if the folks just got too old to take care of the place. . . . .
 
OK, Radiator cap and hood door says it is Ford and NOT Fergie, which had everything under the hood, i.e. hood had to tilt forward to put gas in it, find the battery, and radiator fill. Rear Wheel says 8N, 9N and 2N had a large disc attached to axle and wheel attached to that. there is a web site https://fordtractorcollectors.com/ should get you to site showing difference, or web search.
 

First glance made me think of this building here in Canada.
It is the Royal Ottawa Golf Club building located in Gatineau Quebec.

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It's an N series ford beyond that can't say. All of them were about useless in my opinion no power and to light to pull anything very heavy. I know this will be stepping on some folks ideas. Models after them were better. We bit heavier and live PTO.
 
A little bit about the house. Evangeline Cote' went to work for the Ford Motor Company at the age of 16 in about 1910. By the time she was 20 she had become Henry Ford's personal assistant. The two became romantically entangled and when Evangeline became pregnant, Henry had her married off to his trusted confidante Ray Dahlinger. Ray was a lifelong bachelor but willingly accepted the proposition of marriage to Evangeline to give the whole thing a legitimate appearance. Ray was totally loyal to Henry Ford, drove race cars, was an excellent mechanic, and served Henry well for many years. Henry Ford had this house built on the east bank of the Rouge River on property he owned just a stone's through north of his own house, Fairlane, and sold it to them for 1$. It had 8 bathrooms, 9 fireplaces, servants quarters, a 4 car garage that included a vehicle hoist. A boathouse was located on the Rouge River. The house had a secret staircase that went directly to Evangeline's dressing room so that anyone could come and go without being observed. Henry also had a boathouse at his place. There was never a shortage of supplies for the house and plumbers, carpenters, electricians, plasterers, painters, etc. were liberally employed keeping the place in tip top shape. Evangeline was no coach potato. She bred and raced horses, wad a licensed pilot and expert with any kind of gun be it pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns. She was Tyrone Power's cousin.
A little bit about the tractor. It is an 8N. I think I see a generator, black with a silver colored end cap, under the hood on the left front which would make it a 1950 or newer. I don't know if it has Ford script on the fenders or not. There is so much rust.
 
I had a TO 35 that had a door on the hood to open to put fuel in. It was 8" x 24" and opened to the side. The tractor had a loader and backhoe on it. Was there an industrial model?
 

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