Ford Motor Co.’s first Fordson tractor produced at the company’s Rouge manufacturing complex in Dearborn, Mich., comes off the assembly line on Feb. 23, 1921. Ford founder Henry Ford, who was born and ...

Henry Ford's mechanical interests went much further than automobiles. Ford also built America's foundational airliner, the Ford Trimotor, and kick-started the production of modern tractors, too. In ...

Henry Ford created the Henry Ford & Son Company in November 1915 to develop and produce a farm tractor. In October 1917, the company began building 6,000 tractors for England and 1,000 for Canada to ...

Did you know that someone once fitted a Fordson tractor with a set of snow-cone treads? Did you know that YouTube has silent film of it? Did you know that silent-movie people could do donuts on a ...

Fifty-one years ago in February 1959, the Tractor and Implement Division of the Ford Motor Company introduced the Select-O-Speed transmission for the Ford 601, 701, 801 and 901 series of tractors. It ...

VIDEO, PICTURE GALLERY: BARRY Milsom and fellow Fordson fans are celebrating 100 years of the little blue tractors that helped soldier settlers build farms across the nation. The Fordson was the ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Fordson tractors were in production ...

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Simple machines famed for the key role they played in food production during the lean years of the Second World War will be the star of the show when the UK’s largest outdoor vintage tractor festival ...