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Re: Re: Beginning of Massey
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Posted by Tom from Ontario on February 28, 1999 at 18:27:58:
In Reply to: Re: Beginning of Massey posted by MEL on February 28, 1999 at 10:00:45:
Dave: Ferguson and Massey-Harris needed each other but due to Harry Ferguson's inability to keep his mouth shut, he was probably in the worst position of the two. It has been said that Massey's tractors were inferior but that's a bunch of crap. M-H tactors were as good as anyone's but Ferguson and Fords were very much suited to the smaller livestock farmer that had to make a tractor do a lot of different things. For the big acre farmer, they were no more than toys. M-H got its start from the union of Massey (starting in Newcastle in Ontario, then Toronto, and Alanson Harris in Brantford,Ontario. Daniel Massey was a strict Presbyterian and wanted to replace his hired harvest labour with machinery because they demanded whiskey every day as part of their wage and there was no way Daniel was going to have whiskey on his farm. Massey and Harris got together in 1891 and for a good part of the early 20th century they were the biggest manufacturing concern in Toronto. Both companies were very strong in harvesting
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