Majorman
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560Dennis
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Got a Holley 234 vaporizer on it ,its an early one
Over here, fenders were installed on all of them in 1924. Mostly to prevent them from doing their infamous backflips. Prior to that they were a $50 option. My uncle bought a new one in 1924 and managed to get one of the last without fenders thus saving him $50. He boasted about this. Fordsons, as they aged, became somewhat hard to start when hot. So it was fairly common to let them idle when performing some short type of work away from the tractor. On occasion, they would jump into gear while idling and take off on their own. One day he had the Fordson idling in the yard while he was working on something else and it jumped into gear and headed straight for the silo. It hit the silo head on, wheels first and didn't stop there. It climbed right up the silo, flipped over backward and caught on fire. They said it burned so completely as to be barely recognizable which, being made almost completely of steel, was almost unbelievable. He then had to use the $50 he'd saved toward the purchase of another tractor. (;>))
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Majorman
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Came over in the first 200 in 1917 apparently. No.17
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One of these?
coonie minnie
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I need to ask... what is MOM?
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Majorman
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Henry Ford's first production tractors were made to help British farmers produce much needed food at the later stages of WW1. The agreement was they would not be sold to farmers but were sold to the government and loaned to farmers. They were paid for by the Ministry of Munitions so became known as the Ford MOM later the Model F.
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Thanks for the history lesson. That roof design is interesting as well. Looks like it's been there a while with no failures.
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