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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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...