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Ford
Tractor History
Henry Ford had grown up on a farm, and had taken a personal interest
in providing an affordable tractor to the small farmer. He built his
first experimental tractor in 1907 and was said to have made more
than 50 different prototypes until the development of the Fordson
F in 1917. The Fordson name was selected for two reasons. There was
already a Ford Tractor Company in Minneapolis at the time, and the
Ford Motor Company shareholders did not approve of tractor production.
So Henry established an entirely new firm, Ford & Son Inc., which
was shortened to Fordson. Ford
stopped tractor production in the US in 1928, choosing to focus
on the Model A car that was replacing the Model T. Fordson production,
however, continued in England. In 1938, Henry Ford and Harry Ferguson
made an agreement for Ford to build tractors with the Ferguson three-point
hitch system, and the Ford 9N was developed. The Fordson name was
continued to be used in England until 1961, when the two branches
of the company were consolidated.
Ford purchased
New-Holland in 1985, but was soon looking for a way out of the tractor
business. In 1991, Ford-New Holland was sold to FIAT. The deal required
that FIAT stop using the Ford name on tractors in 2000. |
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