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 ...

Launched in 1929 by the Ministry of Agriculture at the outbreak of WWII the Fordson Standard N tractors aim was to reduce reliance on imported food, which was vulnerable to German U-boat attacks that ...

Henry Ford’s lost child lives. The last tractor survivor hides between low hills and farmland outside Rosewood, Ohio. Inside a metal barn, gleaming in customary gray and red, sits Henry Ford’s fabled ...

A man whose roots were from deep Cork farming stock, it is apt that Henry Ford’s new Irish factory became synonymous with tractor production during its first 15 years, writes John Dolan. The first ...