Re: Favorite pre-1940 tractor

Posted by Maine Fordson on February 10, 2007 at 10:31:39 from (169.244.143.114):

In Reply to: Re: What is your favorite pre-1940 tractor? posted by Alberta Mike on February 10, 2007 at 04:38:33:

All these suggestions, and nobody has mentioned the venerable Fordson Model F? That's the tractor that introduced lots of folks to "power farming"... In fact, by 1923, 75% of all tractors on American farms were Fordson F's!
Trouble was, Henry Ford did the same thing with the Model F that he did with the the Model T automobile; namely, he kept basically the same design in production for way too long, and others came along with improved designs (i.e., frame-mounted cultivators and other implements) and ate his lunch. He got preoccupied with making the Model A automobile anyway, and in 1928 all of the Fordson tooling was shipped to Cork, Ireland.

My 2¢ worth.

-- Maine Fordson

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• Re: Favorite pre-1940 tractor David mercer 15:55:09 04/07/07 (0)

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