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Henry
IrOY, Mich- - Ford
itor Company has been in
I business of building and
Irketing tractors for 61
automotive
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Phone 717-354-4341
Daily Market Report Phone 717 354 7288
Abe Diffenbach, Manager
Field Representatives - Bob Kling 717-354-5023
Luke Eberly 215-267-6608
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weary miles behind a plow inspired
Ford to build the Fordson tractor
which last year began ob
serving its 75th year as a
corporation, in 1917 formed a
subsidiary, Henry Ford &
Son, to market the “Ford
son” tractor.
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The company’s founder,
Henry Ford, told in his
autobiography how he had
experimented with tractors
even before building his first
car. As a farm boy, he said,
he had “walked many a
weary mile beind a
plow...what a waste,..for a
human being to spend hours
and days behind a slowly
moving team of horses!"
Mr. Ford’s difficulty was
not in designing a tractor - he
had budt several successful
heavy stearfi models - but m
designing one the average
fanner could afford. “The
maufactunng of a big
tractor which only a few
wealthy fanners could buy
did not seem to me wor
thwhile,” he wrote.
Mr. Ford soon decided that
he could do more for the
farmer by enabling him to
make excursions off the
farm, and thus turned his
attention to the automobile.
Only after it was in
production did he return to
the tractor, turning out more
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nryFoi introduced the Fordson as the world’s first mass-produo .cor
October 8,1917. The first 7000 units went to Great Britain to help increase food
production during World War I. During some years in the lS2o’s, the Fordson
represented 75 per cent of all tractors built in the U.S.
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than 50 experimental models
before world events
propelled him into making
tractors in earnest - and in
quantity.
It was early 1917, World
War I, and because of the
German blockade, Britain
was in danger of starving.
She needed to import 70 per
cent of her food supply, and
Allied ships headed there
were being sunk m large
numbers. Britain’s only
hope: to increase food
production at home. Her
only means: the tractor.
Britain’s Lord Nortbcliffe
entreated Mr. Ford: “Our
farmers need tractors. We
want you to build 7000 of
them for us, quickly.” Mr.
Ford agreed. On October 8,
1917, the first Ford-produced
tractor rolled off the
assembly line, and within
seven months the entire
order was filled.
When Henry Ford brought
his Fordson to the American
market in 1918, he was
deluged with 13,000 orders
within three months. Bet
ween 1917 and 1928,
U.S.Fordson production
totalled 739,977. For some
years during the 1920’5, 75
per cent of all tractors built
in the U.S. were Fordsons,
Mr. Ford sold the early
(Turn to %age 120)
automatic
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SYCAMORE IND PARK
255 PLANE TREE DRIVE
LANCASTER, PA 17603
(717)393-5807
Route 30 West at
119